It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
VOLTAIRETo the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Common sense is not so common.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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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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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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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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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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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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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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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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