Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
VOLTAIREIt is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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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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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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