If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIRETo hold a pen is to be at war.
More Voltaire Quotes
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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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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Common sense is not so common.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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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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Love truth, but pardon error.
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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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