Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
VOLTAIRETo succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Common sense is not so common.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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