Voltaire Quotes, Father Quotes, Book Quotes

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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The road to the heart is the ear

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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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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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

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