Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VOLTAIRESensual 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.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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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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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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Common sense is not so common.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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