I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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More Voltaire Quotes
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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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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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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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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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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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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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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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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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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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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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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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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