If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
VOLTAIREReading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Common sense is not so common.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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