Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
VOLTAIREWhat is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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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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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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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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