Voltaire Quotes, Years Quotes, Pigs Quotes

Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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

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There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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

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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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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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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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