Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
VOLTAIREThe secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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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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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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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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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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