May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIREAppreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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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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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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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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