No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VOLTAIRENo opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VOLTAIREIn every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
VOLTAIREDoubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
VOLTAIRETo hold a pen is to be at war.
VOLTAIREIt is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
VOLTAIREHe must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
VOLTAIREShe blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
VOLTAIREThere are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
VOLTAIRELove truth, but pardon error.
VOLTAIREThose who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
VOLTAIREDespite 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.
VOLTAIREI have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
VOLTAIREOne day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
VOLTAIREIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIREOur labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
VOLTAIREIf you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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