Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
VOLTAIREIn every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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