Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
VOLTAIREI don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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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 discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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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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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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