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.
VOLTAIREDiscord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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 God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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