Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
VOLTAIREOur labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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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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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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