To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIRESensual 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.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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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Men argue. Nature acts.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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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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Dare to think for yourself.
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