Voltaire Quotes

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Voltaire

Profession : Writer

Birth : November 21, 1694

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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

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

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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Better is the enemy of good.

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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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