All Voltaire Quotes
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
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The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
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