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    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
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    “Dare to think for yourself.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: freedom-of-thought
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    Voltaire
    “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: god, voltaire
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    “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
    ― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, heresy
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    Voltaire
    “Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
    ― Voltaire
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    “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
    ― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire
    tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire
    1771 likes

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    Voltaire
    “May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies. ”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: gospel-truth
    267 likes

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    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4084 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    ― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: apothegm, common-sense
    1837 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: guilt
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    Voltaire
    “Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Voltaire
    “I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: monarchy
    192 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Injustice in the end produces independence.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: cause-and-effect, independence, injustice, suffering
    181 likes

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    Voltaire
    “There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #16
    Voltaire
    “The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.”
    ― Francois Marie Arouet
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    Voltaire
    “No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #19
    Voltaire
    “Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.”
    ― Voltaire
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    “To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. ”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “A witty saying proves nothing.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: proof, sayings, wit
    54 likes

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  • #23
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    “Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: poetry
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  • #24
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    “Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: philosophy-of-life
    654 likes

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    Voltaire
    “In every author, let us distinguish the man from his work.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “What can be feared when one is doing one's duty? I know the rage of my enemies. I know all their slanders; but when one only tries to do good to men and when one does not offend heaven, one can fear nothing, neither during life nor after death.”
    ― Voltaire, Socrates
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    “The only way to make men speak well of us is to do it.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
    tags: trouble
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    Voltaire
    “This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
    ― Voltaire
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