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

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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

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Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.

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He is lifeless that is faultless.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

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

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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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