I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
VOLTAIREGod is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
More Voltaire Quotes
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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