Voltaire Quotes, Atheist Quotes, Tyrants Quotes

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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There are no sects in geometry.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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History is the study of the world's crime

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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A witty quote proves nothing.

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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

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