Voltaire Quotes, Love Quotes, Crush Quotes

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

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

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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Everything can be borne except contempt.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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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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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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There can be no happiness without good health

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It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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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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