It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VOLTAIRELove truth, but pardon error.
More Voltaire Quotes
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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