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More Quotes by Voltaire
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
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.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
