Voltaire Quotes, Kings Quotes, War Quotes

Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

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A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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