Voltaire Quotes, Christian Quotes, Brother Quotes

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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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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

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When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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

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