Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
VOLTAIREMan is free at the instant he wants to be.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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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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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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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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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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