Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
VOLTAIREReading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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