May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIREMen argue. Nature acts.
More Voltaire Quotes
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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