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A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire
Nothing
Saying
Witty
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Voltaire
People
Will
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Voltaire
Mother
Successful
Man
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
Age
Virtue
Energy
Loss
Better is the enemy of good.
Voltaire
Enemy
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
Appreciation
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire
Play
Trying
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Voltaire
Power
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Voltaire
Government
Assassination
Democracy
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Voltaire
Men
Women
Sentiment
Worth
All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
Numbers
Sound
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
Voltaire
Men
God
Knowledge
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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Enemy
Mankind
Rest
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
Answers
Man
Questions
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire
Death