It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
VOLTAIREFaith consists in believing what reason cannot.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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 greater is their power to harm us.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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