What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
VOLTAIRECommon sense is not so common.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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