In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
VOLTAIREMen argue. Nature acts.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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