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.
VOLTAIREThe 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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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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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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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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