Voltaire Quotes

To hold a pen is to be at war.
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One Liner Peace Pen Poet War Writing
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Deep Intelligence Judgement One Liner Stupidity
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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Acceptance Alone Decide Game Life Player
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Guilty Man One Liner Sad Struggle
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Dwell Greatness Harm Hurt Misfortune Power
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Acquire Book Education Knowledge Reading
Dare to think for yourself.
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Attitude Dare One Liner Self Love Self Respect Thinking
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Believe Faith God Invention Necessary Religion
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Depend Inequality Misfortune
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Authority DAngry Establish Freedom Right Wrong
Common sense is not so common.
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Common Common Sense Deep One Liner
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Burn Neighbor Opinion Worth
History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Healing History Men Past Repeat
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Deep Greatness Healing Hide One Liner
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Forbidden Government Humour Kill Murder Punishment
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Lion Myself Obey Rat Species Strong
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Agree Deep History Humour Lie Past
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Ignorance Path Road Species Stone Walk
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Chain Fools Freedom Insult One Liner Respect
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Allow Control Criticize Want
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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Awareness Consciousness Infinity Knowledge Meditation
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Creation God Reciprical Religion
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Alone Deep One Liner Proud Rare
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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Enemy God Grant Humour Prayer Ridiculous
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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Aim Discover Goals Goodness Philosophy Practice
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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Human Ignorance Knowledge Spirit Virgin Virtue
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Broken Heart Deceive Hurt Love Lying Unhappy

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