Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIREMinds differ still more than faces.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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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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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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