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• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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  Peace, Crazy, War

  "Rights". Book by Voltaire, 1771.

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• The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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  Perfect, Enemy, Excellence

  "La Bégueule". Poem by Voltaire, 1772.

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• When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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  Money, Humor, Religion

  Letter to Mme. d'Épinal, Ferney on December 62, 1760. "Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance". Book published by Garnier frères, Paris, Volume IX, letter #4390, p.124, 1881.

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• No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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  Inspirational, Education, Clever

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• Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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  Motivational, Stupidity, Doubt

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• The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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  Children, Heart, Religion

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• The more you know, the less sure you are.

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  Math, Mathematical, Math And Science

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• When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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  Appreciation, Morning, Light

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• Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

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  Inspirational, Time, Philosophical

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• Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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  Thinking, Men, Hands

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• I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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  God, Spiritual, Imagine

  Attributed to Voltaire in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science: An Anthology" (p. 65), 1982.

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• Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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  Insanity, Bipolar, Insane

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• Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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  People, Reasonable

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• The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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  Government, Tyrants, Politics

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• Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

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  Passion, Inspire, Atheism

  Voltaire (2012). “Philosophical Dictionary”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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  Art, Get Well Soon, Health

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• I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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  Funny, Life, God

  Letter to M. Damilaville, 16 May 1767

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• All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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  Women, Sentimental, Sentiments

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• Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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  Stupid, Book, Enormous Quantities

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• If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

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  Learning, Science, Thinking

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.67, Penguin

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• I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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  Two, Stronger, Lions

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• God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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  Funny, Marriage, Sexy

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• There can be no happiness without good health

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  Good Health

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• There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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  Names, Causes, Effects

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• No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

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  Burning, Opinion, Neighbor

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