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Funny Quotes by Voltaire
- Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.
- I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
- Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
- Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
- I hate women because they always know where things are.
- The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
- To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
- Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
- The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
- What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
- It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
- Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
- We cannot wish for that we know not.
- In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
- Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them
- I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.
- For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?
- The more a man knows, the less he talks.
- We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.
- When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
- Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.
- A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age.
- I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
- He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.
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