It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VOLTAIREDon’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
More Voltaire Quotes
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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