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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer  (Voltaire Quotes) In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others  (Voltaire Quotes) I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.  (Voltaire Quotes) All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws  (Voltaire Quotes) Every man can educate himself. It’s shameful to put one’s mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn’t entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.  (Voltaire Quotes) I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.  (Voltaire Quotes) It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.  (Voltaire Quotes) What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another’s follies, it is the first law of nature.  (Voltaire Quotes) The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech  (Voltaire Quotes) I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it  (Voltaire Quotes) The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people  (Voltaire Quotes) Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.  (Voltaire Quotes) When man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle.  (Voltaire Quotes) The man who says to me, Believe as I do, or God will damn you, will presently say, Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you.  (Voltaire Quotes) S’il n’existait pas Dieu il faudrait l’inventer. (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)  (Voltaire Quotes) God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked  (Voltaire Quotes) The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister  (Voltaire Quotes) The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.  (Voltaire Quotes) The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, ‘I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.’  (Voltaire Quotes) I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race  (Voltaire Quotes) It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.  (Voltaire Quotes) The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.  (Voltaire Quotes) Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.  (Voltaire Quotes) The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.  (Voltaire Quotes) What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy  (Voltaire Quotes) I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope  (Voltaire Quotes) The multitude of books is making us ignorant  (Voltaire Quotes) Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too  (Voltaire Quotes) Tears are the silent language of grief  (Voltaire Quotes) Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness  (Voltaire Quotes)
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