Minds differ still more than faces.
VOLTAIREIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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