If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
VOLTAIREOur labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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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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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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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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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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