"It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence."

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Source : "Equality" by Voltaire, 1764.

Voltaire

#Real Quotes #Inequality Quotes #Misfortunes Quotes

“Oh God, it's her, run!”
“I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.”
“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
“Men let women down. Over and over again. I'ts what they're programmed to do.”
“She's intense and passionate, so she's perfect.”
“I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.”
“Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.”
“I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.”

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