Voltaire Quotes, Appreciation Quotes

God created women only to tame men.

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All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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The more you know, the less sure you are.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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

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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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