It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
VOLTAIREWhen it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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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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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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