To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIREIt is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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 inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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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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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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