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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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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Only your friends steal your books.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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