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VOLTAIRE Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These ...
VOLTAIRE Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
VOLTAIRE It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VOLTAIRE Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
VOLTAIRE No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
VOLTAIRE The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
VOLTAIRE The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
VOLTAIRE God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
VOLTAIRE Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
VOLTAIRE The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment...
VOLTAIRE We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.
VOLTAIRE I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pl...
VOLTAIRE It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
VOLTAIRE Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
VOLTAIRE Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
VOLTAIRE Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
VOLTAIRE He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
VOLTAIRE The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it.
VOLTAIRE Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life
VOLTAIRE Prejudice is the reason of fools
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