Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIRELove is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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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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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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