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• An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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  Method, Infallible, Fanatics

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4181, Delphi Classics

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• It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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  Success, Winning, Order

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• Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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  Christian, Men, Inspire

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• Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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  Religious, Atheist, Intelligent

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• "You're a bitter man," said Candide.
  "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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  Men, Bitter, Candide

  "Candide, Or, Optimism". Book by Voltaire, 1759.

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• If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Men, Atheism

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• He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

  Voltaire

  Giving, Sage, Want

  Voltaire (1780). “The Works of Mr. de Voltaire. Translated from the French. With Notes. By T. Francklin ... T. Smollett, M.D., and Others. A New Edition”, p.69

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• History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

  Voltaire

  Hands, History, Fiction

  Voltaire (1955). “Voltaire's Alphabet of wit”

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• Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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  Optimistic, Optimism, Maintaining

  Francois Marie Arouet De Voltaire (2004). “Candide (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.48, Sparklesoup LLC

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• It is only through timidity that states are lost.

  Voltaire

  Shyness, Lost, States

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• All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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  Sweet, People, Cheerful

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• It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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  Animal, Law, Feet

  Voltaire (2007). “The Complete Romances of Voltaire”, p.428, Wildside Press LLC

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• Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

  Voltaire

  Giving, Pleasure, Kill Me

  Voltaire (2016). “Candide”, p.69, Xist Publishing

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• Work is often the father of pleasure.

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  Father, Pleasure

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• If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

  Voltaire

  Editors, Style, Answers

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.72, Voltaire

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• Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

  Voltaire

  Passion, Angel, Play

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• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

  Voltaire

  God, Atheist, Religion

  Epitres no. 96, "A l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs" (1770) See Ovid 2

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• The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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  Boredom, Way, Bores

  'Sur la Nature de l'Homme' v.174-5 in 'Sept Discours en vers sur l'homme'

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• I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

  Voltaire

  Moral, Persons

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• It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

  Voltaire

  Love, Self, Anorexia

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• Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Writing

  "Timeline: a history of free speech" by David Smith, Luc Torres, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2006.

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• There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

  Voltaire

  Pleasure

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.215, Penguin

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• History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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  Climbing, History, Boots

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• Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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  Men, Hair, Ideas

  A Philosophical Dictionary 'Physicians' (1764)

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• Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

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  Destiny, Law, People

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