Voltaire Quotes, Fear Quotes

Fear could never make virtue.

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The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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