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Voltaire Quotes

«Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.»
«All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.»
«Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.»
«Friends should be preferred to kings.»
«If God did not exist it would be necessary for us to invent Him.»
«Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities»
«Prejudice is opinion without judgement.»
«I Thy God am the Light and the Mind which were before substance was divided from Spirit and darkness from Light.»
«The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.»
«'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'»