The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
VOLTAIREMay God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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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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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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