All Voltaire Quotes
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
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Faith
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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
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 in
War
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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire
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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.
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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire in
Love
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
Voltaire
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Voltaire
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire
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