May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIREDon’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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