Voltaire Quotes, Certain Quotes

What can we say with certainty?

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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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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There can be no happiness without good health

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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

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The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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

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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

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