Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VOLTAIREI would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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