Voltaire Quotes, Hands Quotes, Firsts Quotes

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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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

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A witty quote proves nothing.

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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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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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Virtuous men alone possess friends.

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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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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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