Voltaire Quotes, Life Quotes, Nature Quotes

Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

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Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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All is but illusion and disaster.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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We only half live when we only half think.

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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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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The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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