Dare to think for yourself.
VOLTAIRELove is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Common sense is not so common.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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