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Voltaire


French
November 21, 1694
Writer
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Common sense is not so common.


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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.


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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.


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We cannot wish for that we know not.


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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.


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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.


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Nature has always had more force than education.


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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.


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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.


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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.


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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.


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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.


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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.


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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.


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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.


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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.


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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.


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


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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.


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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.


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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.


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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.


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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.


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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.


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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
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All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.


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God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.


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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.


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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.


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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.
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Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.
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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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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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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
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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.
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