Voltaire Quotes

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

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Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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Paradise is where I am

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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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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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

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Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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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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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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