Voltaire Quotes, Religious Quotes, Fear Quotes

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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Paradise is where I am

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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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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History is fables agreed upon.

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

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