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.
VOLTAIREMen argue. Nature acts.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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