It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VOLTAIREDon’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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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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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Common sense is not so common.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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