Voltaire Quotes, Certain Quotes

What can we say with certainty?

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Fear could never make virtue.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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Let us cultivate our garden.

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

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Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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God created women only to tame men.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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