Voltaire Quotes, Father Quotes

Work is often the father of pleasure.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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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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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

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A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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