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.
VOLTAIREWhat is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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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