The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
VOLTAIRESometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
More Voltaire Quotes
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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