Author

Voltaire

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“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”— Voltaire
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“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”— Voltaire
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“To hold a pen is to be at war.”— Voltaire
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“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.”— Voltaire
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“Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.”— Voltaire
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“The superfluous, a very necessary thing.”— Voltaire
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“Tears are the silent language of grief.”— Voltaire
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“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”— Voltaire
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“Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.”— Voltaire
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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.”— Voltaire
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“The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.”— Voltaire
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“Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.”— Voltaire
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“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”— Voltaire
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“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”— Voltaire
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“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.”— Voltaire
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“I hate women because they always know where things are.”— Voltaire
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“History should be written as philosophy.”— Voltaire
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“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.”— Voltaire
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“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.”— Voltaire
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“I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.”— Voltaire
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“Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.”— Voltaire
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“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”— Voltaire
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“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.”— Voltaire
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“The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.”— Voltaire
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“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”— Voltaire