Voltaire Quotes, Life Quotes, Men Quotes

You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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God created women only to tame men.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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