Voltaire Quotes, Devil Quotes

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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

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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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

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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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Only your friends steal your books.

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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