If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
VOLTAIREUncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
More Voltaire Quotes
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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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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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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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