Voltaire Quotes, Character Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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The best is the enemy of the good.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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Only your friends steal your books.

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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