Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
VOLTAIREDoctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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