Voltaire Quotes, Book Quotes, Ambition Quotes

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

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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Now is not the time for making new enemies.

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They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

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Paradise is where I am

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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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If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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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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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

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