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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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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct
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Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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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
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Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity
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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well
Appreciation
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world
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Clever tyrants are never punished.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
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Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing
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