Voltaire Quotes, Peace Quotes, Cutting Quotes

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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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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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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