It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
VOLTAIREIs politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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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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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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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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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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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.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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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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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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