Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
VOLTAIREI would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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