It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
VOLTAIREThe happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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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 art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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