Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
VOLTAIREIs politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
More Voltaire Quotes
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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