Voltaire Quotes, Character Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to 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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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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