Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
VOLTAIREMan is free at the instant he wants to be.
VOLTAIREDoctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
VOLTAIREThe more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
VOLTAIREWe never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
VOLTAIREIt is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
VOLTAIREWhen it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
VOLTAIREThe most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
VOLTAIREIt is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
VOLTAIREMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VOLTAIREIs politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
VOLTAIREShe blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
VOLTAIREIf you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
VOLTAIREInjustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIREUncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
VOLTAIREFaith consists in believing what reason cannot.
VOLTAIREIn every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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