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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.
One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.
To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!
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The best is the enemy of the good.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.
Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.
In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want.
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
