Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
VOLTAIREMen are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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