To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIREMay God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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