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Voltaire Quotes


Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.