To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIRELet us cultivate our garden.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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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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Common sense is not so common.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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