It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
VOLTAIREIf you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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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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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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