We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
VOLTAIRENo opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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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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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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