Voltaire Quotes
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The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.
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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
[Being]
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The secret of making one's self tiresome, is, not to know when to stop.
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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.
[Justice]
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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
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The superfluous is very necessary.
[Funny]
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The tolerance of all religions is a law of nature, stamped on the hearts of all men.
[Toleration]
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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
[Creation]
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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
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There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times.
[Truth]
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There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
[Speech]
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
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They who say all men are equal speak an undoubted truth, if they mean that all have an equal right to liberty, to their property, and to their protection of the laws. - But they are mistaken if they think men are equal in their station and employments, since they are not so by their talents.
[Equality]
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
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This poem will never reach its destination.
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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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