Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIREI don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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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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