No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VOLTAIREJudge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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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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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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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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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 not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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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