Voltaire Quotes, Art Quotes, Blessing Quotes

Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

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Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

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There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

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It is only through timidity that states are lost.

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We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

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The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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Music is the pathway to the heart.

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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

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Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

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A good action is preferable to an argument.

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Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

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Writing is the painting of the voice.

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