Voltaire Quotes

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
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Time, Men, Alone

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
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Sad, Wise, Severe

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
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Best, Nothing, Boring

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
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Between, Silent, Deceive

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
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Good, Except, Styles

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
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Wait, News, Case

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
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Fool, Often, Knave

My life is a struggle.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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God, Image, Created

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
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Knows, Laws, Tyrant

Business is the salt of life.
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Life, Business, Salt

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
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Fear, Crime, Punishment

History should be written as philosophy.
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History, Philosophy, Written

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Evil, Real, Done

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
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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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Time, Good, Country

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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History, Nothing, Indeed

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
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Life, Work, Tis

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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Men, Hate, Nothing

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
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Heart, Country, Bound

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
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Society, Ancient, Therefore

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
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Public, Either, Beast

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
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God, Find, Existence

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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Men, Times, Nor

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
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Pleasure, Necessary, Mankind

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: November 21, 1694

Died: May 30, 1778

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