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Voltaire Quotes - Page 15

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I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person

Moral, Persons

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

Health, Miracle, Gentleman

He is lifeless that is faultless.

Faults, Blame, Lifeless

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

People, Coward, Honest

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

Depression, Thinking, Bipolar

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.

Education, Wisdom, Book

"Historical and Critical Memoirs of the Life and Writings of M. de Voltaire". Book by Louis Mayeul Chaudon, p. 348, 1786.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Passion, Angel, Play

Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

Inspiration, Peculiar, Ears

What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

Errors, Law, Tolerance

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

Time, Hands, Goal

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

God, Christian, Believe

We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

Age, Levels, Rise Above

Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.61

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

Country, Law, Numbers

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

Work, Evil, Vices

Voltaire (2016). “Candide”, p.97, Xist Publishing

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Life, Heart, Ears

Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

Queens, World, Usurpers

Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.135

Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

Men, Doctors, Order

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

Poison, Theology

"Teaching the Bible as Literature in Public High School (Part 9)" by Frank Breslin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2014.

A small number of choice books are sufficient.

Book, Small Numbers, Choices

Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.48

What can we say with certainty?

Certain, Certainty

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Bravery, Coward, Vain

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

Abuse, Reform, Dangerous

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2871, Delphi Classics

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

Art, Brother, Light

The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

Sports, Reality, Play

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4171, Delphi Classics

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

Lying, Play, Packs

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