What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
VOLTAIREThe most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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