It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VOLTAIRENo opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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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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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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