Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
VOLTAIREIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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