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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. ↗

— Voltaire

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment. ↗

— Voltaire

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History should be written as philosophy. ↗

— Voltaire

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. ↗

— Voltaire

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. ↗

— Voltaire

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. ↗

— Voltaire

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. ↗

— Voltaire

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. ↗

— Voltaire

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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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