Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
VOLTAIREIt is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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 never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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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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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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