Voltaire Quotes
"Paradise is where I am."
"A witty saying proves nothing."
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
"Common sense is not so common."
"The better is the enemy of the good."
"Virtue debases itself in justifying itself."
"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."
"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."
"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
"Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil."
"Nature has always had more force than education."
"I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom."
"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."
"It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce."
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
"Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
"Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers."
"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
"Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts."
"All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women."
"Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one."
"If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones."
"He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise."
"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."
"It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong."
"It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."
"All men are equal; it is not their birth, But virtue itself that makes the difference."
"I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition."
"Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours."
"Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world."
"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
"Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another."
"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity."
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another."
"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."
"I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow."
"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly — that is the first law of nature."
"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
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