Voltaire
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“Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.” -Voltaire
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“Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.” -Voltaire
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“I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.” -Voltaire
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“Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.” -Voltaire
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“He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.” -Voltaire
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“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.” -Voltaire
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“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.” -Voltaire
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“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.” -Voltaire
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“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.” -Voltaire
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“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.” -Voltaire
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“How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.” -Voltaire
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“Nature has always had more force than education.” -Voltaire
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“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.” -Voltaire
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“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.” -Voltaire
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“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.” -Voltaire
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“Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.” -Voltaire
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“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” -Voltaire
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“The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.” -Voltaire
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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.” -Voltaire
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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.” -Voltaire
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“The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.” -Voltaire
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“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.” -Voltaire
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“In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.” -Voltaire
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“To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.” -Voltaire
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“We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.” -Voltaire
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“It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.” -Voltaire
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“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.” -Voltaire
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“What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.” -Voltaire
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“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.” -Voltaire
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“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?” -Voltaire
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“Nature has always had more force than education.” -Voltaire
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“It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.” -Voltaire
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“God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” -Voltaire
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“The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.” -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.” -Voltaire
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“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” -Voltaire
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“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.” -Voltaire
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. – Voltaire
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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. – Voltaire
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