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More Quotes by Voltaire
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
