Voltaire Quotes, Style Quotes, Addresses Quotes

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

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For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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There can be no happiness without good health

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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