To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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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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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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