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Who Quotes by Voltaire
- Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
- The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
- The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
- Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
- When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
- God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
- He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
- He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
- The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
- The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
- He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
- Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say…
- Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
- He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
- Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
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