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Voltaire Quotes

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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil  (Voltaire Quotes) I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow  (Voltaire Quotes) It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge  (Voltaire Quotes) It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue  (Voltaire Quotes) The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days  (Voltaire Quotes) The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error  (Voltaire Quotes) The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it  (Voltaire Quotes) The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker  (Voltaire Quotes) Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life  (Voltaire Quotes) The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him  (Voltaire Quotes) Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read  (Voltaire Quotes) It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books  (Voltaire Quotes) Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day  (Voltaire Quotes) It is proved... that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose  (Voltaire Quotes) I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species  (Voltaire Quotes) 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  (Voltaire Quotes) If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace  (Voltaire Quotes) Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?  (Voltaire Quotes) The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing  (Voltaire Quotes) She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying  (Voltaire Quotes) I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion  (Voltaire Quotes) Alas... I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it’s never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?  (Voltaire Quotes) Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed  (Voltaire Quotes) Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively  (Voltaire Quotes) Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all  (Voltaire Quotes) It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster  (Voltaire Quotes) All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers  (Voltaire Quotes) Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time  (Voltaire Quotes) Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one’s garden  (Voltaire Quotes) Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors  (Voltaire Quotes)
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