May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIREMinds differ still more than faces.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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 not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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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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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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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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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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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 a man knows, the less he talks.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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