Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIREMen argue. Nature acts.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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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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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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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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