Tag: Voltaire
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Voltaire
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire
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The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Voltaire
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
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Better is the enemy of good.
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