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.
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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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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