The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
VOLTAIRENo opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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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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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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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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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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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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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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