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.
VOLTAIREMen use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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