The more a man knows, the less he talks.
VOLTAIREDoubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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