To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIREBeing unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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