What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
VOLTAIREIce-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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