We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
VOLTAIREI have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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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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Dare to think for yourself.
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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 longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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