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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? ↗

— Voltaire

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Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. ↗

— Voltaire

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. ↗

— Voltaire

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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. ↗

— Voltaire

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. ↗

— Voltaire

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. ↗

— Voltaire

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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. ↗

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire

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