He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
VOLTAIREIt is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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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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Common sense is not so common.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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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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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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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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Let us cultivate our garden.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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