Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIREDare to think for yourself.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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