All Voltaire Quotes
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.
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Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
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In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
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