Voltaire Quotes
242 Voltaire quotes:
"It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude"
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"All kinds are good except the kind that bores you."
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"The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it."
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one."
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"I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker."
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"The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days."
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"He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage."
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"One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly."
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"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."
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"If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new"
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"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out"
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"I was never ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, once when I won one"
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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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"The United States has subcontracted Brazil for security and Canada for economic development. But they're all reporting to Washington. The final decisions are made there,"
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"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."
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"History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead."
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"May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies."
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"The superfluous, a very necessary thing."
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best"
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"The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it."
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