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Voltaire

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The jealousy when furious, produces more crimes than interest and ambition.

Voltaire

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A false science makes atheists; a true science postulates man before divinity.

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The desire to please is to the spirit what adornment is to beauty.

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It is always more important to strive to be interesting than exact; because the spectator forgives everything except boredom.

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The modern man is born either to live amidst the convulsions of restlessness, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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Divorce probably dates back to the same time as marriage. However, I believe that marriage is a few weeks older.

Voltaire

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Man rushes into error more quickly than rivers flow into the sea.

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The nature makes men eloquent in great passions and great interests.

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The passion to dominate is the most terrible of all diseases of the human spirit.

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The falsehoods not only oppose the truth, but often contradict each other.