Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
VOLTAIREGod is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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Minds differ still more than faces.
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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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