Voltaire Quotes, Men Quotes, Burning Quotes

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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

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The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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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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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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A witty saying proves nothing.

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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God created women only to tame men.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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