Let us cultivate our garden.
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.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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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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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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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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