Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
VOLTAIREOpinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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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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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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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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