Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIREEvery man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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