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Quotations by François-Marie Arouet

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.