Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
VOLTAIREOpinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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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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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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