Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
VOLTAIREIt is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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