What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
VOLTAIRETo the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
More Voltaire Quotes
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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