Voltaire Quotes, Country Quotes, Time Quotes

In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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What can we say with certainty?

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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

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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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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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