Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
VOLTAIRESometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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