When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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.
More Voltaire Quotes
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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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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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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If 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.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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