{"id":11441,"date":"2016-05-13T14:44:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=11441"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:44:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:44:59","slug":"Famous_Quotes_by_Voltaire_119_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=11441","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes by Voltaire (119 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer<\/b><\/div>\n
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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Argument<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A witty saying proves nothing.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Speech<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Bores and Boredom<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Equality<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Books and Reading<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Animals<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Passion<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Song and Singing<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Evil<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Appreciation<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Fate<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Common sense is not so common.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Common Sense<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Divorce<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Ancestry<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Doctors<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Certainty<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Reform<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Age and Aging<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Exaggeration<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.<\/div>\n
Voltaire – [Metaphysics<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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