Quotes by Voltaire

“In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.”

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“We must cultivate our garden.”

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“Love truth, but pardon error.”

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“Doubt is not a pleasant condition. But certainty is an absurd one.”

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“Use, do not abuse… Neither abstinence not excess ever renders man happy.”

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“It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.”

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“People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.”

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“Do you believe that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?”

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“Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts flourish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any experienced in a town when it is under siege.”

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“God is on the side not of the heavy battalions, but of the best shots.”

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