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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to ...

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

A witty saying proves nothing.

All is for the best in the best of all possible ways.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to ...

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions.

Better is the enemy of good.

Canada: A few acres of snow.

Change everything except your loves.

Common sense is not so common.

Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well ...

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they ...

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.

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

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

Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

England has forty - Two religions and only two sauces.

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

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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

God is always on the side of the big battalions.

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

History is fables agreed upon.

History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his ...

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.

I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

I have lost the half of myself? a soul for which mine was made.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.

I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so.

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme ...

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

If this world were what it seems it should be, it is clear that it would be impossible for one man to enslave another.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other.

In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance ...

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.

It is not enough to conquer one must learn to seduce.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love truth but pardon error.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Love truth, but pardon error.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have ...

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is ...

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die.

Regimen is superior to medicine.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it ...

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

The public is a ferocious beast - - One must either chain it up or flee from it.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

The secret of being boring is to say everything.

The secret of being boring is to tell everything.

The superfluous is very necessary.

The way to become boring is to say everything.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self - Seekers have associates, the politic assemble ...

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

There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for ...

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of ...

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

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

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

This is no time to make new enemies.

This poem will never reach its destination.

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

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well - Mannered.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well - Mannered.

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Work saves us from three great evils boredom, vice and need.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all ...

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all ...

Optimism is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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