May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIREI have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of 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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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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