One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
VOLTAIRECherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
More Voltaire Quotes
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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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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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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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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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