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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Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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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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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.

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An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.

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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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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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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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