Voltaire Quotes
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
[God]
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
[Glory]
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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
[Censorship]
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
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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.
[Art]
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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
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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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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
[Experience]
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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.
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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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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
[War]
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
[Patriotism]
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