When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
VOLTAIRESensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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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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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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