The more a man knows, the less he talks.
VOLTAIRELove truth, but pardon error.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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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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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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