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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    Voltaire
    “Love truth, but pardon error.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: truth
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    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    ― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: apothegm, common-sense
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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    ― Voltaire
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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.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: books, reading
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    Voltaire
    “Dare to think for yourself.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: freedom-of-thought
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    Voltaire
    “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: god, voltaire
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    “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: guilt
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    “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
    ― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, heresy
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    Voltaire
    “Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
    (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: food
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    Voltaire
    “The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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    Voltaire
    “Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”
    ― Voltaire, Traité sur la tolérance, à l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas
    tags: freedom-of-thought, independence-of-thought, thinking, tolerance, voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: self-delusion
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    “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: denial, fear, reality, truth, truth-hurts, truth-quotes, truths
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    Voltaire
    “Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.”
    ― Voltaire
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    “It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: books
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    “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
    ― Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes
    tags: condemnation, guilt, innocence, judgment, justice, mercy, reasonable-doubt, verdict
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    “Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.”
    ― Voltaire
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    “Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “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.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Voltaire
    “I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.”
    ― Candide
    tags: love, passion
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    Voltaire
    “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: health-care, medicine
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  • #29
    Voltaire
    “One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”
    ― Voltaire
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