All Voltaire Quotes
The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
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