If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIREUncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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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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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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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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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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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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