Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
VOLTAIREIf God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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 loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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