“Common sense is not so common.”
Voltaire
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“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”
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“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”
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“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
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“To learn who rules over you, simply found out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
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“Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.”
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“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.”
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“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy–the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.”
Voltaire
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“It was not sufficient for the disquiet of our minds that we disputed at the end of seventeen hundred years upon the articles of our own religion, but we must likewise introduce into our quarrels those of the Chinese. This dispute, however, was not productive of any great disturbances, but it served more than any other to characterize that busy, contentious, and jarring spirit which prevails in our climates.”
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“O my dear Candide! You knew Paquette, that pretty attendant of our august baroness; I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise, which produced these torments of hell by which you see me devoured; she was infected and may have died of it.”
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“History should be written as philosophy.”
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“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
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“Nature has always had more force than education.”
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“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”
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“The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.”
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“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”
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“Deism is good sense not yet instructed by revelation, and other religions are good sense perverted by superstition. All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.”
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“Men who seek happiness are like drunkards who can never find their house but are sure that they have one.”
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“The earthly paradise is where I am.”
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“Ask a toad what beauty is, the supreme beauty, the to kalon. He will tell you it is his lady toad with her two big round eyes coming out of her little head, her large flat snout, yellow belly, brown back.”
Voltaire
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