No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VOLTAIREIs politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
More Voltaire Quotes
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Common sense is not so common.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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