Voltaire Quotes

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Voltaire

Enjoy, Others, Privilege

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
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Progress, Ocean, Error

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
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God, Him, Necessary

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire

Love, Same, Away

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire

Nothing, Another, Writers

Better is the enemy of good.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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Religion, Nothing, Sense

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
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Made, Hell, Hearts

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
Voltaire

Everything, Tell, Secret

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Voltaire

Illusion, Pleasures

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire

Death, Brave, Coward

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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God, Nothing, Made

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Great, Words, Thoughts

To hold a pen is to be at war.
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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
Voltaire

Life, Nothing, Tell

The best is the enemy of the good.
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Good, Best, Enemy

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
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Others, Excellence, Property

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
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Mind, Human, Virtue

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
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Cannot, Dream, Watch

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
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Motto, Both, Weakness

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
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Risk, Natural, Tongue

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
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Women, Learned, Same

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Religion, Money, Same

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Voltaire

Marriage, Same, Divorce

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: November 21, 1694

Died: May 30, 1778

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