It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VOLTAIRETo the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Men argue. Nature acts.
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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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