History never repeats itself. Man always does.
VOLTAIREBeing unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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