Voltaire Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Eye Quotes

Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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Friends should be preferred to kings.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

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