It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VOLTAIREI have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
More Voltaire Quotes
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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 know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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