Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
VOLTAIREIt is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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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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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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