Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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 know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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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 is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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