No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VOLTAIREMinds differ still more than faces.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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