Voltaire Quotes, Inspire Quotes, Tolerance Quotes

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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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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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

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

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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

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