What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
VOLTAIREOne great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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