A witty saying proves nothing.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Quotations
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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Better is the enemy of good.
History is fables agreed upon.
No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.
It is not enough to conquer one must learn to seduce.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
The secret of being boring is to tell everything.
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
If this world were what it seems it should be, it is clear that it would be impossible for one man to enslave another.
Love truth, but pardon error.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.
As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination.
Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die.
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.
It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.
Love truth but pardon error.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.
Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
Change everything except your loves.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)
The superfluous is very necessary.