Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
VOLTAIREMen use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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