Quotes by Voltaire
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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
"There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable."
The secret of being boring is to say everything.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
It is only through timidity that states are lost.
He who can make us believe absurdities can make us commit atrocities.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.