Voltaire Quotes, Atheist Quotes, Tyrants Quotes

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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