Voltaire Quotes, Pride Quotes

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

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The superfluous is very necessary.

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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