Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
VOLTAIREI don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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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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