I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
VOLTAIRELove is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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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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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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