Voltaire Quotes, Christian Quotes, Rome Quotes

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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Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

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I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

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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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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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

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Learn to cultivate your own garden.

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Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

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We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

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