When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
VOLTAIREThe more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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