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• The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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  Perfect, Enemy, Excellence

  "La Bégueule". Poem by Voltaire, 1772.

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• May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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  Funny, Friendship, Best Friend

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• Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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  People, Reasonable

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• Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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  Insanity, Bipolar, Insane

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• Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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  Stupid, Book, Enormous Quantities

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• Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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  Opportunity, Neglected, Life Opportunity

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• What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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  Cutting, Men, Heaven

  Voltaire (2011). “A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, OUP Oxford

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• Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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  Regret, Loss, Men

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• I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

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  Happy, Health, Enlightenment Thinkers

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• We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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  Death, Forgiveness, Nature

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.272

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• The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

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  Religious, Absurd, Jew

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• Writing is the painting of the voice.

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  Writing, Voice, Painting

  Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.170

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• There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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  Names, Causes, Effects

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• All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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  Women, Sentimental, Sentiments

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• To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.130, Penguin

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• What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

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  Perception, Madness, Reason

  Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.383

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• Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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  Faith, Believe, Reason

  1770 Questions sur l'Encyclopedie.

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• The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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  Government, Tyrants, Politics

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• The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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  Darkness, Sunrise, Quiet

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• He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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  Learning, Ignorance, Stupid People

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• Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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  Spiritual, Travel, Attitude

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• History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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  Men, History, Doe

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• If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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  Atheist, Believe, Atrocities

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• Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

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  Sleep, Exercise, Dark

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• I hate women because they always know where things are.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Cute

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