Voltaire Quotes, Truth Quotes

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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