Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
VOLTAIREInjustice in the end produces independence.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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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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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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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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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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