Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
VOLTAIRENo opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
More Voltaire Quotes
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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