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Voltaire Quotes - Page 21

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The superfluous is the most necessary.

The superfluous is the most necessary.

Superfluous

Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

Enemy, Use, Weapons

"Questions sur l'Encyclopédie". Book by Voltaire. Chapter: "Oracles", 1770.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

Real, Real Friends, Soil

Voltaire (1820). “Pièces inédites de Voltaire, imprimées d'après les manuscrits originaux, pour faire suite aux différentes éditions publiées jusqu'a ce jour”, p.256

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

Men, Mind, Malevolence

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.197, Penguin

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Empires, Holy, Roman Civilization

Happiness is not the portion of man.

Men, Portions

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.166, e-artnow

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

Ignorance, Animal, Two

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

Encouragement, Hard Work, Would Be

Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

Nature, Sells

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

Thinking, Mind, Killing

Change everything except your loves.

Love, Change

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

Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

Wisdom, Lonely, Men

Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.261

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Book, Men, Small Numbers

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.2849, e-artnow

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

Men, Ideas, Liberty

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.1880, e-artnow

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

Art, Brother, Philosophy

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

Hypocrisy, Doe, Various

Voltaire, John G. Gorton (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.38

There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Yoga, Thinking, Meditation Practice

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

Genius, Most Amazing, Invention

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

History, Historical, Fables

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Courage, Bravery, Doe

Paradise is where I am

Inspirational, Life, Paradise

Voltaire (1963). “Candide”

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Pride, Littles

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