We are rarely proud when we are alone.
VOLTAIRETo the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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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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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 God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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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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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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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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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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