May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIRECherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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