If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
VOLTAIREThe comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
More Voltaire Quotes
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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