Quotes by Voltaire

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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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our...

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but...

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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