Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
VOLTAIREOpinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd 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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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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 hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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