Minds differ still more than faces.
VOLTAIRETo the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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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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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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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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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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