It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
VOLTAIREOne day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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