If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
VOLTAIREDiscord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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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.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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