Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
VOLTAIREThe more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Common sense is not so common.
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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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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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