Voltaire Quotes
+7Luck is a word devoid of sense. Nothing can exist without a cause.
- Voltaire
+5It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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+5History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
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+3He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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+3Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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+3God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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+3Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
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+1Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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+1It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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+1A witty saying proves nothing.
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+1Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
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+1What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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+1There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times.
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+1If God did not exist it would be necessary for us to invent Him.
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+1When it’s a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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+1The superfluous is very necessary.
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+1Prejudice is opinion without judgment.
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+1Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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+1It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
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+1It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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+1Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
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+1The more you know, the less sure you are.
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+1We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
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+1Common sense is not so common.
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+1History is little else than a long succession of useless cruelties.
- Voltaire