It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
VOLTAIREMen use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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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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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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