Voltaire Quotes, Religious Quotes, Believe Quotes

The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

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What can we say with certainty?

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

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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

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I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

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