Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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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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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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