Voltaire Quotes
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do”
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“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
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“Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.”
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“Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.”
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“I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.”
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“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
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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”
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“The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.”
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“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
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“I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.”
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“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively”
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“As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities”
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“To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly”
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“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
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“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
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“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”
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“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
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“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
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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.”
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“If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.”
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“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world”
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“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us”
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“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
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“There are men who can think no deeper than a fact”
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“Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.”
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“To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters”
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“say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you”
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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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“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too”
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“If Christians want us to believe in a Redeemer, let them act redeemed”
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“The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing”
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“It is not enough to conquer; one must also know how to seduce”
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“Common sense is not so common.”
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“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say”
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“Once the people begin to reason, all is lost”
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“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”
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“There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts”
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“I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.”
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“All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws”
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