There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
VOLTAIREThe comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
More Voltaire Quotes
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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