Voltaire Quotes

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
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Long, Continue, Commit

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Unless, Sound, Large

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
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Two, Dance, Read

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
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Husband, Wife, Often

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Wrong, Dangerous, Matters

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
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Home, Fire, Find

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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Patriotism, Good, Enemy

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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Thinking, Thoughts, Knowing

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
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Experience, Wise, Others

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
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Optimism, Miserable, Madness

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
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Government, Democracy, Ideal

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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Beauty, Work, Affected

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
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Opinion, Earth, Trouble

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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Art, Government, Nation

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
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True, Reason, Along

The ear is the avenue to the heart.
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Heart, Ear, Avenue

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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Knowledge, Ignorance, Human

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
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Stupid, Enough, Succeed

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
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Love, Blind, Depicted

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
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Feels, Snowflake, Avalanche

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
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Son, Makes, Days

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
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Guilty, Risk, Innocent

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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Doubt, Pleasant, Condition

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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Nothing, Sense, Chance

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Reason, Fools, Prejudices

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: November 21, 1694

Died: May 30, 1778

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