Voltaire Quotes, Years Quotes, Pigs Quotes

Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

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

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

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

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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

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