There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
VOLTAIREThere are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
VOLTAIREI have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
VOLTAIREWe never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
VOLTAIREThose who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
VOLTAIRESensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
VOLTAIREI don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
VOLTAIREPrejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIREWhat is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
VOLTAIRELiberty of thought is the life of the soul.
VOLTAIREThe comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
VOLTAIREThe 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.
VOLTAIREThe happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
VOLTAIREDoctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
VOLTAIRESometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
VOLTAIREIt is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
VOLTAIREIt is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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