Voltaire Quotes

We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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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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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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

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