If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
VOLTAIREIt is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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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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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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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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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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