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Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Voltaire

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Those who believe that money does everything, end up doing everything for money.

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Voltaire

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I do not agree with what you say, but I would fight for your right to say it.

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The pleasure of governing must be very great, since there are so many who aspire to do it.

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Civilization did not suppress barbarism; it perfected it and made it more cruel and barbaric.

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One of the superstitions of human beings is to believe that virginity is a virtue.

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Change your pleasures, but do not change your friends.

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A collection of thoughts should be a pharmacy where a remedy for all ills is found.

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I, like Don Quixote, invent passions to exercise myself.

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Voltaire

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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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What we call chance is neither nor can it be anything but the unknown cause of an unknown effect.