Voltaire Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Mean Quotes

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

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True power and true politeness are above vanity.

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One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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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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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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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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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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There are no sects in geometry.

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The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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