Quotes By Voltaire
A witty saying proves nothing.
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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
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God is always on the side of the big battalions.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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It 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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Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Love truth, and pardon error.
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The secret of being boring is to say everything.
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There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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