The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
VOLTAIREIt is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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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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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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