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.
VOLTAIREThe secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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