Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIREOne great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
More Voltaire Quotes
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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 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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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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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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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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