Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
VOLTAIREI don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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