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.
VOLTAIREIf you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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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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