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“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, heresy

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“Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?”
― Voltaire

tags: contant-d-orval, volume

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“Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
― Voltaire, Dialogues satiriques philosophiques: suivis du sermon des cinquante

tags: concealment, speech, thoughts

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“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

tags: dwell, harm, misfortune

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“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

tags: conformism, disregard, ignorance, innovation, persecution, reformers, trailblazers

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