I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
VOLTAIREDoctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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