Voltaire Quotes, Garden Quotes

Let us cultivate our garden.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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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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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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

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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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

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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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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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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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