I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
VOLTAIRETo hold a pen is to be at war.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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