Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
VOLTAIREIt is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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