To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIRETo the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIREEvery man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
VOLTAIRECherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
VOLTAIRETo hold a pen is to be at war.
VOLTAIREUncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
VOLTAIREBeing unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
VOLTAIREIf we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
VOLTAIREThe more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
VOLTAIREDoctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
VOLTAIREInjustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIREReading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
VOLTAIREI don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
VOLTAIREIt is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
VOLTAIRESensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
VOLTAIREIt is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
VOLTAIREIt is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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