There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire More Quotes by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire More Quotes From Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common) Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire If this world were what it seems it should be, it is clear that it would be impossible for one man to enslave another. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire The secret of being boring is to tell everything. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire 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 intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire 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 becomes the property of all. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire History is fables agreed upon. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire 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 to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide) Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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