Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
VOLTAIREIt 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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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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