Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VOLTAIREFaith consists in believing what reason cannot.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Common sense is not so common.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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