It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
VOLTAIREWhen a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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 secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Common sense is not so common.
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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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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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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