Injustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIREBeing unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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