If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
VOLTAIREPerfect is the enemy of good.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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