Dare to think for yourself.
VOLTAIREI have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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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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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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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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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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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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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 not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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