Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
VOLTAIREMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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