If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
VOLTAIREThose who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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