Voltaire Quotes

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

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

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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.

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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

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

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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

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If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

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