Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
VOLTAIRECommon sense is not so common.
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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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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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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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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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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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