If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
VOLTAIREReading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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