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Voltaire QUOTES

  • I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

  • Common sense is not so common.

  • Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

  • Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.



  • God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

  • I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

  • Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

  • Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

  • Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

  • Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

  • Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

  • Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

  • The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

  • It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

  • We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

  • The ear is the avenue to the heart.

  • The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

  • When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

  • If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

  • Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.


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