Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
VOLTAIREIt is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
More Voltaire Quotes
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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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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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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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