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The Pope is an idol whose han...

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

Voltaire 196 quotes

It is ourselves alone that ma...

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

Voltaire 196 quotes

We’re neither pure, nor wise,...

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

Voltaire 196 quotes

The rude beginnings of every ...

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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We are intelligent beings: in...

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

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Our labour preserves us from ...

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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I am a little deaf, a little ...

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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Errors flies from mouth to mo...

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

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When we cannot use the compas...

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

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Where some states possess an ...

Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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Twenty-volume folios will nev...

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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Everything happens through im...

Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

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A good imitation is the most ...

A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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Ask a toad what is beauty.......

Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

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There is an astonishing imagi...

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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The man visited by ecstasies ...

The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

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Villains are undone by what i...

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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Men, generally going with the...

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

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The worthy administrators of ...

The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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Perfect is the enemy of good....

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Voltaire 196 quotes

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