No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VOLTAIREMen use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
More Voltaire Quotes
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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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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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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