God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIRELiberty of thought is the life of the soul.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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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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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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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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