Monday, April 17, 2006

10 famous quotes of Voltaire


Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Love truth, but pardon error.

Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.


The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of resoning.

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