Voltaire Quotes, Illusion Quotes

All is but illusion and disaster.

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An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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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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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

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

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In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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History is the study of the world's crime

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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