It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
VOLTAIREMen argue. Nature acts.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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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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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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