I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
VOLTAIRECherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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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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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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