One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
VOLTAIREI would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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