Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
VOLTAIREOur labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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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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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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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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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