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.
VOLTAIREI loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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