God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIREEvery man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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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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