Love truth, but pardon error.
VOLTAIREOpinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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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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.
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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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 not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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