It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
VOLTAIREIt is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
More Voltaire Quotes
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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 know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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