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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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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