In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
VOLTAIREOpinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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Common sense is not so common.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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