Quote by Voltaire Download Open image ““There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.”” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each me wishes, that he also believes is true.” — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
“Learn from everyone, and you will not be easily deceived by anyone.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image