Voltaire Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Mean Quotes

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

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One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

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But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

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

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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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A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

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

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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

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It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

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But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

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A witty quote proves nothing.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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