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All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

— Evelyn Beatrice Hall The Friends of Voltaire (1906)

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There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

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It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

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He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.

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A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

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For the first time he looked into his heart and wrote, and thus for the first time he touched the hearts of others; the cold style took fire, and beneath the clumsy periods welled tears.

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

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When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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