If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
VOLTAIREMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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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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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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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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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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