Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
VOLTAIRELove is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
More Voltaire Quotes
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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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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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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