Voltaire Quotes, Kings Quotes, War Quotes

Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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We must cultivate our own garden.

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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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I hate women because they always know where things are.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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