It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
VOLTAIREIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Common sense is not so common.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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