Voltaire Quotes

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

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

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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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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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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