It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VOLTAIREMinds differ still more than faces.
More Voltaire Quotes
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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