Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
VOLTAIREMadness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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