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Men Quotes by Voltaire
- Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
- Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
- Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
- All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
- All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
- Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
- It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
- Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
- The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
- Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
- Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
- Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
- Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
- There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
- We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which…
- In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
- I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be…
- Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct…
- It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
- Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
- Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
- Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that…
- When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
- The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that…
- And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and…
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