I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
VOLTAIREThe only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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