Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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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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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
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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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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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