To hold a pen is to be at war.
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More Voltaire Quotes
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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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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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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