The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
VOLTAIREI loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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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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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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