All Voltaire Quotes
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
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I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
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