When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
VOLTAIREMen use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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If 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.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find 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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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