QUOTES by Voltaire
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“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”
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“Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.”
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“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
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“Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.”
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“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
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“If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.”
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“All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.”
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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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“In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.”
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“The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.”
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“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
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“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.”
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“What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he’s certain he’ll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?”
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“I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.”
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“I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.”
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“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.”
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“Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.”
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“Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.”
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“When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.”
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“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.”
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“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be polite.”
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“‘Optimism,’ said Cacambo, ‘What is that?’ ‘Alas!’ replied Candide, ‘It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.'”
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