It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

About Voltaire

Portrait of Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (French: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁi aʁwɛ]; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire (, US also ; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his Criticisms of the Catholic Church and slavery, Voltaire was...

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Nature has always had more force than education.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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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.

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Fools are without number.

—Desiderius Erasmus

Violence is for fools and emergencies. The less of a fool you are, the fewer emergencies you will have.

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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

—Herbert Spencer

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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

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The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time… love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

—Lawrence Durrell

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History

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