Voltaire Quotes, Book Quotes, Fire Quotes

It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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

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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

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To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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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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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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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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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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