Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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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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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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