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.
VOLTAIREFools 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.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Common sense is not so common.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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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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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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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