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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.

Voltaire

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
VOLTAIRE

Enjoyment Freedom Privilege Thinking Yourself

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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VOLTAIRE

Amuse Art Disease Medicine Nature Patient
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
VOLTAIRE

Guilty Man One Liner Sad Struggle
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VOLTAIRE

Burn Neighbor Opinion Worth
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Book Bore Evil Reading Writing
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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Forbidden Government Humour Kill Murder Punishment
Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIRE

Common Common Sense Deep One Liner
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
VOLTAIRE

Greatness Man Patience Remedy Tolerance
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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Brother Individual Man Monster Opinion Philosophy
Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Evil Greatness Labour Preserve Want Wear
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
VOLTAIRE

Book People Quantity Reading Stupidity Vulgar
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Canvas Imagination Love Nature
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Birth Difference Equality Men Virtue
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.
VOLTAIRE

Believe Fools Habit Myself Please Taste
Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Character Liberty Life One Liner Soul
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Depend Inequality Misfortune
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
VOLTAIRE

Acceptance Alone Decide Game Life Player
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
VOLTAIRE

Fools Humour Meet Religion
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Believe Hope Illusion Optimism Positive
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.
VOLTAIRE

Believe Brain Confidence Human Man Power
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Afraid Audience Comdey God Laugh Play
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
VOLTAIRE

Himself Jealousy Love Man Suffering
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Respect Stupidity Success World
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Ending Money Thinking
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
VOLTAIRE

Deep Greatness Healing Hide One Liner
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Excuse Fools One Liner Prejudice Reason
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
VOLTAIRE

Human Infinity Mathematics Stupidity Truth