Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
VOLTAIREGod is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
More Voltaire Quotes
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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