May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIREThe discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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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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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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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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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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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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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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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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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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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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