I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
VOLTAIREEvery man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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