Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
VOLTAIREIt is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
More Voltaire Quotes
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted 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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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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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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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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