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1 I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. (attributed) Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 09:09 add/edit
2 The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 09:08 add/edit
3 Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 08:30 add/edit
4 It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 08:30 add/edit
5 The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 08:26 add/edit
6 Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 07:41 add/edit
7 The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 07:37 add/edit
8 What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 07:37 add/edit
9 Illusion is the first of the pleasures. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 07:32 add/edit
10 I should stop myself from dying if a good joke or a good idea occurred to me. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 07:30 add/edit
11 It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 07:07 add/edit
12 Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 06:51 add/edit
13 All our history . . . is no more than accepted fiction. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 06:46 add/edit
14 The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 06:22 add/edit
15 If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 05:57 add/edit
16 If you wish to converse with me, define your terms. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 05:40 add/edit
17 We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 05:29 add/edit
18 It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 05:25 add/edit
19 To a toad, what is beauty? A female with two pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly and spotted back. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 05:19 add/edit
20 Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-04 05:14 add/edit
21 You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-03 17:44 add/edit
22 There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-03 16:16 add/edit
23 No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) 2010-05-03 16:04 add/edit
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