Voltaire Quotes, Nature Quotes, Animal Quotes

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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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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In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

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A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

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He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

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In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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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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A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

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There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

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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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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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To hold a pen is to be at war.

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Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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Men argue. Nature acts.

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

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