Sensual 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.
VOLTAIREIs politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
More Voltaire Quotes
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Common sense is not so common.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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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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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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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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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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