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All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
Equality
Voltaire

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Books - Reading
Voltaire

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

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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Appreciation
Voltaire

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
Reform
Voltaire

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Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.
Exaggeration
Voltaire

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
God
Voltaire

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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
God
Voltaire

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
History and Historians
Voltaire

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
Nationalities and Nationalism
Voltaire

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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Freedom of Speech
Voltaire

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

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
Books - Reading
Voltaire

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Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
Questions
Voltaire

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Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.
Theory
Voltaire

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Greed
Voltaire

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Problems
Voltaire

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
Patience
Voltaire

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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Pleasure
Voltaire

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Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
Rest
Voltaire

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Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Idleness
Voltaire

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Government
Voltaire

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The best is the enemy of the good.
Excellence
Voltaire

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Surprises
Voltaire

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The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.
People
Voltaire

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun