The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
VOLTAIRECherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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