Voltaire Quotes, Pride Quotes

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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The son of God is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son; Christ, the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it.

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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