Voltaire Quotes, Character Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

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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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There can be no happiness without good health

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

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

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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What is not in nature can never be true.

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