It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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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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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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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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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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