Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
VOLTAIREOur wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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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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 cultivate our garden.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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