Voltaire Quotes, Character Quotes, Thinking Quotes

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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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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What can I hope when all is right?

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You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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The road to the heart is the ear

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Learn to cultivate your own 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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If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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