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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Quotes
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Franois-Marie Arouet (1694 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade
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- A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Better is the enemy of good. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Change everything except your loves. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. (In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide) Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- History is fables agreed upon. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- If this world were what it seems it should be, it is clear that it would be impossible for one man to enslave another. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- It is not enough to conquer one must learn to seduce. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- It is not known precisely where angels dwell-whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common) Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Love truth but pardon error. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Love truth, but pardon error. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- The secret of being boring is to tell everything. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- The superfluous is very necessary. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- To hold a pen is to be at war. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
- When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire »
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