Voltaire Quotes, Atheist Quotes, Evil Quotes

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

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Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

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The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

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To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

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Happiness is not the portion of man.

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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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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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

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

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

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Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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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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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

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No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

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