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Voltaire on Money

1694–1778 France

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

It is more easy to write on money than to obtain it; and those who gain it, jest much at those who only know how to write about it.

Money is always to be found when men are to be sent to the frontiers to be destroyed: when the object is to preserve them, it is no longer so.

Questions sur l'Encyclopédie (1770)

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

Questions sur l'Encyclopédie (1770)

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