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Francois Voltaire -
“A witty saying proves nothing.”2.
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“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.”3.
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“Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.”4.
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“'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'”5.
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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.”6.
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“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”7.
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“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”8.
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“It is with books as with men: A very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.”9.
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“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”10.
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“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.”11.
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“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”12.
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“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”13.
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“Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason At all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.”14.
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“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”15.
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“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”16.
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“Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.”17.
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“Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.”18.
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“Everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”19.
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“Doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know lessen human beings of which they know nothing.”20.
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“Better is the enemy of good.”21.
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“This body, which was called and still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was not Holy, nor Roman , nor an Empire.”22.
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“The best is the enemy of the good.”23.
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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.”24.
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“To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.”25.
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“Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.”
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