Voltaire Quotes, Boldness And Courage Quotes

Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

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

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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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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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

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In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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