Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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