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Quotes by Voltaire

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
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"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
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"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."
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""Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills."
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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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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."
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"The superfluous is very necessary."
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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
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"A witty saying proves nothing."
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"Anything too stupid to be said is sung."
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"A witty saying proves nothing."
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"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered."
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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."
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"England has forty-two religions and only two sauces."
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"Canada: A few acres of snow."
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"I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one."
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"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills."
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"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."
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"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
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"When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion."
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"The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire."
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"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
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"A witty saying proves nothing."
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"A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live."
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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
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