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• God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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  Funny, Marriage, Sexy

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• Common sense is not so common.

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  Life, Wisdom, Witty

  Dictionnaire Philosophique "Common Sense" (1765)

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• Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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  Opportunity, Neglected, Life Opportunity

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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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• Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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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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• God created woman to tame man.

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  Men

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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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• Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

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  Faith, Spiritual, Cancer

  'Questions sur l'Encyclopèdie'

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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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• 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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• Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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  Faith, Believe, Reason

  1770 Questions sur l'Encyclopedie.

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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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• May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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  Funny, Friendship, Best Friend

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• If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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  Groups, Tomorrow, Born

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• Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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  Heart, Soul, Sensual

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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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• It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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  Brother, Men, Monsters

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

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• The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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  Congratulations, Done, Rewards

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• Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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  Regret, Loss, Men

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• To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

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  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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

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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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• Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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  Spiritual, Travel, Attitude

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• Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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  Heart, Paradise, Hell

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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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