Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
VOLTAIREIt is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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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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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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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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