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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter (Voltaire Quotes)
Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself (Voltaire Quotes)
Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into himself and to lose himself in his ideas (Voltaire Quotes)
Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them? (Voltaire Quotes)
The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week (Voltaire Quotes)
Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances; it is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind (Voltaire Quotes)
Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world (Voltaire Quotes)
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers (Voltaire Quotes)
Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned (Voltaire Quotes)
Men appear to prefer ruining one another’s fortunes, and cutting each other’s throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness (Voltaire Quotes)
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart, to the finest verses possible chanted by the wicked (Voltaire Quotes)
Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time (Voltaire Quotes)
I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age (Voltaire Quotes)
All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference (Voltaire Quotes)
The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic (Voltaire Quotes)
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting (Voltaire Quotes)
History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below (Voltaire Quotes)
I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one (Voltaire Quotes)
The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy (Voltaire Quotes)
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy (Voltaire Quotes)
When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics (Voltaire Quotes)
The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy (Voltaire Quotes)
The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless (Voltaire Quotes)
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason (Voltaire Quotes)
I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race (Voltaire Quotes)
It is unreasonable for us to look for as great a degree of energy in a woman as in a man; energy is quite as much of a physical as a mental product (Voltaire Quotes)
Such is the destiny of great men that their superior genius always exposes them to be the butt of the envenomed darts of calumny and envy (Voltaire Quotes)
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! How horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite (Voltaire Quotes)
It is ever the improbable that the sceptic is the most ready to give ear to (Voltaire Quotes)
It is strange that thought should depend upon the stomach, and still that men with the best stomachs are not always the best thinkers (Voltaire Quotes)