Voltaire Quotes, Contempt Quotes

Everything can be borne except contempt.

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Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

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When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.

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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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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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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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

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Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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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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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

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You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

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