May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIREMan is free at the instant he wants to be.
More Voltaire Quotes
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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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Common sense is not so common.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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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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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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