Perfect is the enemy of good.
VOLTAIREReligion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
More Voltaire Quotes
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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