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    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism
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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
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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    Voltaire
    “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
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

    (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: enmity, humor, prayers, religion, ridicule, satire, social-justice, social-life
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    Voltaire
    “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: guilt
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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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    Voltaire
    “Dare to think for yourself.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: freedom-of-thought
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    Voltaire
    “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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    “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
    “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
    “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
    “God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: god, religion
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    Voltaire
    “Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: food
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    Voltaire
    “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.”
    ― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: conformism, disregard, ignorance, innovation, persecution, reformers, trailblazers
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    Voltaire
    “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.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: philosophy-of-life
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    Voltaire
    “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
    ― 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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    Voltaire
    “Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “You're a bitter man," said Candide.
    That's because I've lived," said Martin.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Voltaire
    “We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: life, waiting
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    Voltaire
    “The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: philosophical
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    Voltaire
    “Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: money
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    Voltaire
    “What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...”
    ― Voltaire
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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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  • #27
    Voltaire
    “Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “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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