Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
VOLTAIREEvery man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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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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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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