Voltaire Quotes, Cat Quotes, Justice Quotes

The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

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What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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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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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

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So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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Man is free the moment he wants to be.

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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