Voltaire Quotes

French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on…
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When it’s a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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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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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they dwell in peace.
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I hate women because they always know where things are.
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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