Voltaire Quotes

This is no time to be making new enemies.

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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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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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Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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

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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

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

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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