Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
VOLTAIREOne great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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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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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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Love truth, but pardon error.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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If 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.
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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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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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