We are rarely proud when we are alone.
VOLTAIREMadness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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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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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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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