It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VOLTAIREThose who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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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 with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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