Voltaire

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• A witty saying proves nothing.

  Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767): Deuxième Entretien

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• If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.

  • Religion

• Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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