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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More Voltaire Quotes
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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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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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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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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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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