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.
VOLTAIREI have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Common sense is not so common.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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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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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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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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