Let us cultivate our garden.
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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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 happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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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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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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