Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
VOLTAIREIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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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