It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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