Voltaire Quotes, Certain Quotes

What can we say with certainty?

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"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

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

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History is fables agreed upon.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

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I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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