Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
VOLTAIREI loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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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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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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 you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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