To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VOLTAIREPerfect is the enemy of good.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Dare to think for yourself.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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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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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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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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