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More Quotes by Voltaire
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
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.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.