Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
VOLTAIREThe more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
More Voltaire Quotes
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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 happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Common sense is not so common.
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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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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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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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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