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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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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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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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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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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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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