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.
VOLTAIRESensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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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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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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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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