It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
VOLTAIREAppreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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