Voltaire Quotes, Order Quotes, Talking Quotes

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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The best way to be boring is to include everything.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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

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It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

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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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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

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

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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

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If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

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