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.
VOLTAIREThink for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
More Voltaire Quotes
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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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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Common sense is not so common.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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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 hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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