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Power Quotes by Voltaire
- Will is wish, and liberty is power.
- Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes,…
- The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
- What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of…
- 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…
- The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
- If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme…
- Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
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- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo