Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
VOLTAIREIt is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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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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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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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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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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