It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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More Voltaire Quotes
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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