Voltaire Short Quotes

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What a fuss about an omelette!
When he heard of the burning of De l'esprit

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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He who is merely just is severe.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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All styles are good except the boring kind.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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Quite a heavy weight, a name too quickly famous.

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They squeeze the orange and throw away the skin.

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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

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People sometimes say: "Common sense is quite rare."

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Man ought to be content, it is said; but with what?

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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True science necessarily carries tolerance with it.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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Our country is that spot to which our heart is attached.

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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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Virtue: a word easy to pronounce, difficult to understand.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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

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If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent one.

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Stupid stoics! you want to change man, and you destroy him!

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Let nature be your first physician. It is she who made all.

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A company of solemn tyrants is impervious to all seductions.

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