Perfect is the enemy of good.
VOLTAIREPerfect is the enemy of good.
VOLTAIREThose who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
VOLTAIREI would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
VOLTAIREIf 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.
VOLTAIRELove is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
VOLTAIREWhen it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
VOLTAIREI don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
VOLTAIREIs politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
VOLTAIREThe more a man knows, the less he talks.
VOLTAIREI don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
VOLTAIRELet us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
VOLTAIREIn every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
VOLTAIRELove truth, but pardon error.
VOLTAIREMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VOLTAIREFaith consists in believing what reason cannot.
VOLTAIRELife is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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