Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
VOLTAIREI would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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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.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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