Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
VOLTAIREI know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
More Voltaire Quotes
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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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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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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