I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
VOLTAIREIf you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Common sense is not so common.
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Our 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.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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