Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
VOLTAIREShe blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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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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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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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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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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