It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
VOLTAIREI know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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