Voltaire Quotes, Devil Quotes

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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Common sense is not so common.

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

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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