Quotes about Voltaire

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to...

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on...

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty...

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden...

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue,...

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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