Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
VOLTAIREJudge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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 better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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