It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VOLTAIREIf God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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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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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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