Voltaire Quotes, Believe Quotes, Animal Quotes

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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Love truth, and pardon error.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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