Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
VOLTAIREIt is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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