To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIREIs politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
More Voltaire Quotes
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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 he wants to believe.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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