Voltaire Quotes, Taken Quotes, Book Quotes

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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

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