It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
VOLTAIREIt is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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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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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.
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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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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Common sense is not so common.
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