Voltaire Quotes, Running Quotes, Cutting Quotes

I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

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A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

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

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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

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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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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

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For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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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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