Voltaire Quotes, Christian Quotes, Brother Quotes

It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

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Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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Injustice in the end produces independence.

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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

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