The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
VOLTAIREWhat is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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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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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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