Voltaire Quotes
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Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back.
[Beauty]
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Business is the salt of life.
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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
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Canada: A few acres of snow.
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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Clever tyrants are never punished.
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Complacency is a coin by the aid of which all the world can, for want of essential means, pay its club bill in society. - It is necessary, however, that it may lose nothing of its merits, to associate judgment and prudence with it.
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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
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Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.
[Medicine]
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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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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England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
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Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. - Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.
[Character]
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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
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Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
[World]
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