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.
VOLTAIREMen use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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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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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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