Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
VOLTAIREIce-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
More Voltaire Quotes
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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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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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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