Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
VOLTAIRETo hold a pen is to be at war.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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