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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
-Voltaire
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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
-Voltaire
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Business is the salt of life.
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
-Voltaire
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Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
-Voltaire
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
-Voltaire
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
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We cannot wish for that we know not.
-Voltaire
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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
-Voltaire
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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Clever tyrants are never punished.
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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
-Voltaire
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
-Voltaire
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Better is the enemy of good.
-Voltaire
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The secret of being boring is to say everything.
-Voltaire
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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
-Voltaire
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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
-Voltaire
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
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God is always on the side of the big battalions.
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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
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All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
-Voltaire
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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
-Voltaire
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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
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My life is a struggle.
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Love truth, and pardon error.
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
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The ear is the avenue to the heart.
-Voltaire
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Nature has always had more force than education.
-Voltaire
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