It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
VOLTAIREEach 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.
More Voltaire Quotes
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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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Common sense is not so common.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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 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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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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