To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
VOLTAIREHistory never repeats itself. Man always does.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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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 most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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