Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
VOLTAIREIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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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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