The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VOLTAIREPrejudices are what fools use for reason.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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Sensual 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.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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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