Voltaire - Men Quotes

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Philosophers and men of letters have done more for mankind than Orpheus, Hercules, or Theseus; for it is more meritorious and more difficult to wean men from their prejudices than to civilize the barbarian: It is harder to correct than to instruct.

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

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Money is always to be found when men are to be sent to the frontiers to be destroyed: when the object is to preserve them, it is no longer so.

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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.

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A single part of physics occupies the lives of many men, and often leaves them dying in uncertainty.

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The reasonable worship of a just God who punishes and rewards, would undoubtedly contribute to the happiness of men; but when that salutary knowledge of a just God is disfigured by absurd lies and dangerous superstitions, then the remedy turns to poison.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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