Perfect is the enemy of good.
VOLTAIREThose who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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 not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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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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