Voltaire Quotes

There can be no happiness without good health

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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