Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
VOLTAIREIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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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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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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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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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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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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