Voltaire



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Other quotes about: god men born
"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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Other quotes about: god men
"All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God."

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Other quotes about: sun
"Anything too stupid to be said is sung."

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"Appreciation is a wonderful thing It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

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Other quotes about: nothing
"A witty saying proves nothing."

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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one."

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Other quotes about: man good
"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."

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"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

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Other quotes about: god
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

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Other quotes about: god never
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."

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Other quotes about: death right
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it."

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Other quotes about: history nothing
"Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."

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Other quotes about: wrong right government
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

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"It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

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Other quotes about: man
"It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions."

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Other quotes about: man answer
"Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

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Other quotes about: truth
"Love truth, and pardon error."

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Other quotes about: wish
"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."

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"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."

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"Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference."

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"Prejudice is opinion without judgement."

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"Regimen is superior to medicine."

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Other quotes about: time good answer country
"'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'"

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Other quotes about: art nature
"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

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Other quotes about: money man
"The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him."

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Other quotes about: books book making
"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."

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"There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable."

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Other quotes about: death nothing life fear conscience
"...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

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"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."

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"The secret of being boring is to say everything."

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"The way to become boring is to say everything."

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"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."

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Other quotes about: believe
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

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Other quotes about: world
"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."

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Other quotes about: happy man
"Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."

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Other quotes about: alone
"We are rarely proud when we are alone."

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"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

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Other quotes about: evil need
"Work saves us from three great evils boredom, vice and need."

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Other quotes about: books live world book
"You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books."

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