Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
VOLTAIREGod is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
More Voltaire Quotes
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Common sense is not so common.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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