To hold a pen is to be at war.
VOLTAIREThere are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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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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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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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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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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