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

Voltaire

Voltaire

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The passion to dominate is the most terrible of all diseases of the human spirit.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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The falsehoods not only oppose the truth, but often contradict each other.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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To be good only to oneself is to be good for nothing.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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Women are like weather vanes: they only stand still when they rust.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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Metaphysical discussions are like balloons filled with air; when the bladders burst, one observes how the air comes out and nothing is left.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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Science is like the earth; you can only possess a little of it.