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Writer Time Men Religion Satire

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

- Voltaire

Other quotes by Voltaire


God Men

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

- Voltaire
Optimism

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

- Voltaire
Age

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

- Voltaire
War

To hold a pen is to be at war.

- Voltaire
Death

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

- Voltaire
Forbidden Sound

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

- Voltaire

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