Voltaire Quotes, Father Quotes

Work is often the father of pleasure.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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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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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

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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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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

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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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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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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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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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Only your friends steal your books.

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Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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