The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
VOLTAIREGod is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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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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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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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