Voltaire Quotes

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
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Friendship, Marriage, Soul

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
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Excellent, Top, Middle

Injustice in the end produces independence.
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End, Injustice, Produces

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
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Sad, Wise, Hard

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
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God, Him, Necessary

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
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Future, Said, Present

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
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Work, Nothing, Place

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
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History, Crimes, Register

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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Age, After, Energy

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
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Both, Butchers, Shepherds

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
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God, Whether, Known

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Men, Thought, Thoughts

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
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Great, Friend, Dead

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
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Best, Government, Tyranny

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

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
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Great, Pride, Infinitely

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
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Goes, Repent, Astray

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Question, Ignorant, Asked

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
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Age, Spirit, Misery

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
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Greatest, Fight, Wild

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
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Heart, Mouth, Obeys

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
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Making, Books, Ignorant

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
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Everything, Wicked, Pretext

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
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Truth, Martyrdom, Fond

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
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Good, Once, Year

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: November 21, 1694

Died: May 30, 1778

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