Voltaire Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Heart Quotes

Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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Common sense is not so common.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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He is lifeless that is faultless.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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The road to the heart is the ear

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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

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

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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