Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
VOLTAIREIt is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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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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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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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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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