If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIREIt is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Common sense is not so common.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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