He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
VOLTAIREI know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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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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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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