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Quotations by author » Voltaire
French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778
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The superfluous, a very necessary thing
Necessity
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force
Liberty
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost their power of reasoning
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The United States has subcontracted Brazil for security and Canada for economic development. But they're all reporting to Washington. The final decisions are made there,
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The United States is speaking out of both sides of its mouth,
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact
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There are no sects in geometry
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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts
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There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all occasions
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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind
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They (the British) are like their own beer; froth on top, dregs at bottom, the middle excellent
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They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too
Thinking
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire
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This interim government would have fallen without the United States,
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This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
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