The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VOLTAIREThe longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VOLTAIREWhat is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
VOLTAIREFaith consists in believing what reason cannot.
VOLTAIREPrejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIREUncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
VOLTAIREOne great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
VOLTAIREMen argue. Nature acts.
VOLTAIREOur 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.
VOLTAIREDoubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
VOLTAIREMan is free at the instant he wants to be.
VOLTAIREEvery man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
VOLTAIRENo opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VOLTAIREThe discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
VOLTAIREIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VOLTAIREI know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
VOLTAIREIf you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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