Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
VOLTAIREOpinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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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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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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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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