Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
VOLTAIREHe must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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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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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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