Voltaire Quotes

We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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