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Voltaire has 419 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
• There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head…
• Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
• Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
• The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
• In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
• It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
• Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

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