Perfect is the enemy of good.
VOLTAIREEvery man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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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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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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