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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More Voltaire Quotes
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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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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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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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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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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