Voltaire Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Ideas Quotes

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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We only half live when we only half think.

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There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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