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.
VOLTAIREPrejudices are what fools use for reason.
More Voltaire Quotes
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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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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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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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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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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