Voltaire Quotes, Book Quotes

Only your friends steal your books.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

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

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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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