Quotes by Voltaire

I Never Was Ruined But Twice, Once When I Gained a Lawsuit, and Once When I Lost It

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Doctors Are Paid To Talk Nonsense With the Patient Until Nature Heals Or the Remedies Kill

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When Colombus Promised a New Hemisphere, All Said That It Could Not Exist. When He Found It, All Said It Had Been Known Long Before

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“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”

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“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”

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“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”

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“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”

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“I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.”

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“Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”

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“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “

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