Voltaire Quotes, Heart Quotes

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

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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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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

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Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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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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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

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

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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