Voltaire Quotes
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Many historians take pleasure in putting into the mouths of princes what they have neither said nor ought to have said.
[History]
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
[Marriage]
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May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel, that when we find one who is only weak, we are happy.
[Weakness]
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Men argue, nature acts.
[Nature]
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.
[Thinking]
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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
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My prayer to God is a very short one "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous!" God has granted it.
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Nature has always had more force than education.
[Nature]
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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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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
[Success]
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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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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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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