Voltaire Quotes, Honesty Quotes, Fear Quotes

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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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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The best is the enemy of the good.

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He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

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

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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