Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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The public is a ferocious beast

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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Paradise was made for tender hearts

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

By : Voltaire

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