Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
VOLTAIREMan is free at the instant he wants to be.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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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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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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