Voltaire Quotes, Book Quotes

Only your friends steal your books.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

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If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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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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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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A witty quote proves nothing.

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If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

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