Voltaire Quotes, Grief Quotes, Men Quotes

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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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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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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God created women only to tame men.

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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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