Voltaire Quotes, Character Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. 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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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

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Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

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

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

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The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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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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