The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
VOLTAIREIce-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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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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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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