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Voltaire
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“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
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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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“Better is the enemy of good.”
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“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”
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“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”
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“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.”
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“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.”
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“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
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“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”
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“The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.”
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“He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.”
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“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
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“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
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“The best is the enemy of the good.”
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“Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.”
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“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
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“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?”
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“To hold a pen is to be at war.”
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“It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.”
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“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
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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.”
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“Nature has always had more force than education.”
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“Business is the salt of life.”
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“The superfluous, a very necessary thing.”
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“The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.”
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