Voltaire Quotes

Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Fools Humour Meet Religion
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Authority Conceal Injustice Men Speech
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Dwell Harm Life Misfortune Power Thorn
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Amusement Dance Harm Reading World
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Gossip Importance Love Nonsence Occupation Talk
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Character Liberty Life One Liner Soul
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Believe Fools Habit Myself Please Taste
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Afraid Audience Comdey God Laugh Play
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Decision Goodness Happiness Inspirational Joy Mood
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Guilty Innocence Justice Person Risk Save
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Exquisite Food Illegal Pity
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Book Bore Evil Reading Writing
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Alone Declutter Distance Happiness People Reason
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Conquer Learning Politics Seduce Sex
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Beware Cherish Fear Honesty Seek Truth
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Book Quantity Silence Writing
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Bore One Liner Secret Silence Talker
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Himself Jealousy Love Man Suffering
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Deep Education Intelligence Man Silence Talk
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Believe Faith God Religion
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Freedom Instant Man One Liner Want
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Abundance Comfort Poor Poverty Rich Supply
I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Love Passion Time Wild
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Amuse Art Disease Medicine Nature Patient
Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Deep Enemy Goodness One Liner Perfection
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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Brother Individual Man Monster Opinion Philosophy
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Excuse Fools One Liner Prejudice Reason

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