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Misattributed quotes — Voltaire

1694–1778 France

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15 quotes

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

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Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

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France is a nation with one religion and many sauces; England is a nation with many religions and only one sauce.

Misattributed Actual source is Louis Eustache Ude (1829)

To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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One hundred years from my day there will not be a Bible in the earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity seeker.

Misattributed Hefley What's so great about the Bible (1969)

Business is the salt of life.

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"There is no God, but don't tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night". False quote, misattributed to Voltaire by Yuval Noah Harari in his book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Voltaire (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.