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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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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