Quotes about Voltaire

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but...

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity...

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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