Voltaire Quotes, Nature Quotes, Animal Quotes

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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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

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A witty saying proves nothing.

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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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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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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What can we say with certainty?

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