Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
VOLTAIREGod is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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