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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. ↗

— Voltaire

#believe #commit #continue #long #people

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? ↗

— Voltaire

#experience #learn #others #wise

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. ↗

— Voltaire

#any #dance #harm #let us #never

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. ↗

— Voltaire

#astronomy #daughter #daughters #dominated #earth

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. ↗

— Voltaire

#chance #exist #nothing #sense #void

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ↗

— Voltaire

#no problem #problem #sustained #thinking #withstand

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. ↗

— Voltaire

#bandage #beloved #comes #conceals #faults

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. ↗

— Voltaire

#deny #few #fewer #merit #more

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#old #without #you #young

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext. ↗

— Voltaire

#pretext #serves #wicked