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Letter "V" » Voltaire Quotes
«To be at peace in crime! ah, who can thus flatter himself.»
«We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.»
«I advice you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying you annuities.»
«It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.»
«My prayer to God is a very short one: ''O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous!'' God has granted it.»
«What will the preachers say? ... to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.»
«In this country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others.»
«A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right»
«I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganges to learn geometry...But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been long established in Europe.»
«The fate of a nation is often dependent upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.»
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