Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
VOLTAIREIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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