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| If he once again pushes up his sleeves in order to compute for 3 days and 3 nights in a row, he will spend a quarter of an hour before to think which principles of computation shall be most appropriate. -- Voltaire, "Diatribe du docteur Akakia" | |
| A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire | |
| The superfluous is very necessary. -- Voltaire | |
| "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire | |
| Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire | |
| Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. - Voltaire | |
| What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature. - Voltaire | |
| It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire | |
| To update Voltaire, "I may kill all msgs from you, but I'll fight for your right to post it, and I'll let it reside on my disks". -- Doug Thompson (doug@isishq.FIDONET.ORG) | |
| Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -- Voltaire | |
| I'll defend to the death your right to say that, but I never said I'd listen to it! -- Tom Galloway with apologies to Voltaire | |
| Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts. -- Voltaire | |
| What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature. -- Voltaire | |
| A priest advised Voltaire on his death bed to renounce the devil. Replied Voltaire, "This is no time to make new enemies." | |
| Illusion is the first of all pleasures. -- Voltaire | |
| When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics. -- Voltaire | |
