I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
VOLTAIRETo the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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