Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
VOLTAIREMen will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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