We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
VOLTAIRETo hold a pen is to be at war.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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