Voltaire Quotes, Book Quotes, Ambition Quotes

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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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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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.

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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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