Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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Let us cultivate our garden.
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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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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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