Men argue. Nature acts.
VOLTAIREOur labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
More Voltaire Quotes
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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