Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
VOLTAIREIf we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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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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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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