Voltaire Quote

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

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

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Luck is what happens when preparation and opportunity meet and merge.

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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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A kindly stupid woman is a blessing from heaven.

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

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

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

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True valor consists in knowing how to suffer.

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

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I detest what you write, but I would give my life so that you could continue writing it.

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