Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
VOLTAIRENo opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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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 more a man knows, the less he talks.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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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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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