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.
VOLTAIREBeing unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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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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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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