To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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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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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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