All Voltaire Quotes
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
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I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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