We are rarely proud when we are alone.
VOLTAIREIt is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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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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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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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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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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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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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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