Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
VOLTAIREWhat is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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The 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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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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