I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
VOLTAIREIt is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
More Voltaire Quotes
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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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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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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