Voltaire Quotes

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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The road to the heart is the ear

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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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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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