Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
VOLTAIREDare to think for yourself.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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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 God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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