Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
VOLTAIREIs politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
More Voltaire Quotes
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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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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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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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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