Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
VOLTAIRETo hold a pen is to be at war.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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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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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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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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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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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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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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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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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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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Dare to think for yourself.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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