Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
VOLTAIREIt is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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