Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
VOLTAIREI don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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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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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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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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