I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
VOLTAIREWe never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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