Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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