History never repeats itself. Man always does.
VOLTAIRELove is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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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 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 human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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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