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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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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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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Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

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Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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

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