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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
Luck is a word devoid of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Voltaire
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Voltaire
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others to persecute those who do reason.
Voltaire
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Voltaire
Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire
Nature has always had more force than education.
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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
Voltaire
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
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Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Voltaire
Tears are the silent language of grief.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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The best is the enemy of the good.
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The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
Voltaire
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