Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
VOLTAIREThink for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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