All Voltaire Quotes
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
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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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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
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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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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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