Quotes by Voltaire

To hold a pen is to be at war.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity...

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does...

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot...

#Voltaire

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us...

#Appreciation

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

#Appreciation, #Excellence