Voltaire Quotes

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  If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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  Looks, Want, Criticize

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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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  Funny, Peace, War

  "Questions sur les Miracles". Publication by Voltaire, 1765.

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  The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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  Ignorance, Stupidity, Appearance

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• If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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  Insane, Earth, Asylums

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• So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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  Religious, Fear, Sleep

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• The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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  Important, Speech, Free Speech

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  It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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  Wisdom, Freedom, Fool

  "Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers: Troisième Entretien". Book by Voltaire, 1767.

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• Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

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  Believe, Atrocities, Made

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• Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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  Should, Said, Being True

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• The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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  Happiness, Cheer Up, Decisions You Make

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• You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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  Life, Hands, Play

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• It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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  Inspirational, Religious, Freedom

  "The Age of Louis XIV". Book by Voltaire, 1751.

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  Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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  Reason, Destined

  François Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1766). “The philosophical dictionary, from the French”, p.152

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• Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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  Health, Doctors, Drug

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• The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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  Philosophical, Comfort, Poverty

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• The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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  Men, Knows

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• The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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  Eye, Reflection, Mirrors

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• Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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  Truth, Cherish

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• Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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  Funny, Use It Or Lose It, Prejudice

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• Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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  Art, Lying

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• The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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  Happiness, Lonely, Solitude

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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  Money, Art, Humor

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• The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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  Funny, Hilarious, Silly

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• Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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  Wisdom, Clever, Men

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• The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Educational

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