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.
VOLTAIREHe must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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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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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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