Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Voltaire

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Voltaire

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
Voltaire

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Voltaire

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Voltaire

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
Voltaire

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
Voltaire

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
Voltaire

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
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