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Character Quotes by Voltaire
- The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
- Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
- Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our…
- The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force
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