Voltaire Quotes, Garden Quotes

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

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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

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I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

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The way to be a bore is to say everything.

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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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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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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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