Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
VOLTAIRELove truth, but pardon error.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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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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