One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
VOLTAIREIt is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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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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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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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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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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