Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VOLTAIREFools 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.
More Voltaire Quotes
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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