Voltaire Quotes, Men Quotes, Religion Quotes

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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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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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

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I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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