Voltaire Quotes, Pride Quotes

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

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We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

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If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

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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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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

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Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

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A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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Change everything except your loves.

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It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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