Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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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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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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