Minds differ still more than faces.
VOLTAIREHe must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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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.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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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