Voltaire Quotes, Men Quotes

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

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A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

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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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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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I hate women because they always know where things are.

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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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