Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
VOLTAIREIt is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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