Voltaire Quotes, Country Quotes, Men Quotes

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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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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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

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

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

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

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