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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. ↗

— Voltaire

#holy #neither #nor #roman #roman empire

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. ↗

— Voltaire

#abuse #ever #excess #happy #man

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. ↗

— Voltaire

#bandage #beloved #comes #conceals #faults

The superfluous, a very necessary thing. ↗

— Voltaire

#necessary #superfluous #thing #very

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal. ↗

— Voltaire

#ice-cream #illegal #pity

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ↗

— Voltaire

#human #human mind #imagined #mind #superstitions

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. ↗

— Voltaire

#deny #few #fewer #merit #more

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. ↗

— Voltaire

#common #common sense #contrary #more #nothing

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. ↗

— Voltaire

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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. ↗

— Voltaire

#dead #living #only #owe #truth