To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIREThe happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
More Voltaire Quotes
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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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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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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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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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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