He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
VOLTAIRECommon sense is not so common.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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 we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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