Voltaire Quotes, Heart Quotes, Soul Quotes

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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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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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

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Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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He is lifeless that is faultless.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

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