There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
VOLTAIREThere are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
VOLTAIREBeing unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
VOLTAIREMay God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIREEvery man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
VOLTAIREThe more a man knows, the less he talks.
VOLTAIREI know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
VOLTAIREDoctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
VOLTAIRESometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
VOLTAIREIt is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
VOLTAIREWhat is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
VOLTAIREI don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
VOLTAIREReligion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
VOLTAIREIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIREThe comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
VOLTAIREGod is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIREBehind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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