What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
VOLTAIREFaith consists in believing what reason cannot.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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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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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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