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Voltaire Quotes - Page 13

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You're a bitter man, said Candide. That's because I've lived, said Martin.

"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

Men, Bitter, Candide

"Candide, Or, Optimism". Book by Voltaire, 1759.

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

Hope, Virtue, Should

Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.318

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Forgiveness, Failure, Errors

Voltaire, André Maurois (1939). “The Living Thoughts of Voltaire”

The road to the heart is the ear

Inspiration, Heart, Ears

Minds differ still more than faces.

Mind, Faces, Stills

Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.386

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

Cooking, Certain, Temper

Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.4099, e-artnow

Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

Evil, World, Stride

Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day.

Superstitions, Belief, Thirds

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Atheist, Common Sense, Religion

I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

Love Life, Still In Love, Wanted

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

Book, Silent, Increase

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.149, Penguin

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

Powerful, Equality, Citizens

Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.379

It is only through timidity that states are lost.

Shyness, Lost, States

If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

Editors, Style, Answers

Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.72, Voltaire

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

Bible, Biblical, Earth

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

God, Atheist, Religion

Epitres no. 96, "A l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs" (1770) See Ovid 2

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.

Men, Liberty, Encounters

Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE’S ROMANCES: 20+ Novels, Short Stories, Satires & Fables (Illustrated): Candide, Zadig, The Huron, Plato's Dream, Micromegas, The White Bull, The Princess of Babylon, The Sage and the Atheist, The Man of Forty Crowns, Bababec, Ancient Faith and Fable, The Study of Nature…”, p.70, e-artnow

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

Men, Criminals, Use

Voltaire (1765). “The philosophical dictionary for the pocket: Written in French by a society of men of letters, and translated into English from the last Geneva edition, corrected by the authors. With notes, ...”, p.212

Almost all life depends on probabilities.

Gambling, Probability, Depends

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

Taxation, Matter, Privilege

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Soul, Stones, Philosopher

Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1086, e-artnow

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

Health, Doctors, Medicine

Letter to Charles Feriol 6 November (1767)

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

History, Gossip, Tease

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.

Math, Science, Imagination

Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1187, e-artnow

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

Soul, Comfort, Candide

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