I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
VOLTAIREThe more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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