It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
VOLTAIREI loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
More Voltaire Quotes
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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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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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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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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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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