Voltaire Quotes, Animal Quotes, Law Quotes

It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.

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We are all guilty of the good we did not do

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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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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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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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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The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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