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101 " He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend- provided of course he really is dead. "
― Voltaire
102 " The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor. "
103 " Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. "
104 " What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. "
105 " Perfect is the enemy of done. "
106 " Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. "
107 " In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since. "
108 " But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure. "
― Voltaire , Candide
109 " Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.) "
― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary
110 " My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may do. "
111 " It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions. "
112 " Illusion is the first of all pleasures. "
― Voltaire , Орлеанська діва
113 " Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation. "
114 " We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation. "
115 " By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. "
116 " The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. "
117 " Having lived with kings, I have become a king in my own home. "
118 " And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea. "
119 " What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us and hug him close to our bosoms tillhe has gnawed into our hearts? "
120 " We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence "