Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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More Voltaire Quotes
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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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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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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