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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore (Voltaire Quotes)
The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs (Voltaire Quotes)
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated (Voltaire Quotes)
History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people’s property (Voltaire Quotes)
Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us (Voltaire Quotes)
Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren (Voltaire Quotes)
Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.) (Voltaire Quotes)
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them (Voltaire Quotes)
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation. (Voltaire Quotes)
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books (Voltaire Quotes)
Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most (Voltaire Quotes)
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God. (Voltaire Quotes)
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well (Voltaire Quotes)
When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money. (Voltaire Quotes)
No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives. (Voltaire Quotes)
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror (Voltaire Quotes)
The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted. (Voltaire Quotes)
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. (Voltaire Quotes)
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one (Voltaire Quotes)
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. (Voltaire Quotes)
Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways. (Voltaire Quotes)
The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor. (Voltaire Quotes)
All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God (Voltaire Quotes)
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. (Voltaire Quotes)
If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man’s belief in the Bible. (Voltaire Quotes)
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right. (Voltaire Quotes)
Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life. (Voltaire Quotes)
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson. (Voltaire Quotes)
There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see. (Voltaire Quotes)
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. (Voltaire Quotes)