Dare to think for yourself.
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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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 use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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