It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VOLTAIREIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VOLTAIREIf 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.
VOLTAIREBehind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
VOLTAIREMen will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
VOLTAIREAppreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
VOLTAIREIt is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
VOLTAIREOur 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.
VOLTAIREMinds differ still more than faces.
VOLTAIREThe art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VOLTAIREIt is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VOLTAIREIt is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
VOLTAIREMadness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
VOLTAIREDoubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
VOLTAIRELet us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
VOLTAIREGod is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIREWhen it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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