The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
VOLTAIREFaith consists in believing what reason cannot.
More Voltaire Quotes
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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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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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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