To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIREBehind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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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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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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 better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Common sense is not so common.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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