It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
VOLTAIREShe blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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