May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIREThink for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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