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.
VOLTAIREGod is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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