It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VOLTAIREMay God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
More Voltaire Quotes
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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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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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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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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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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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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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
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History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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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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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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