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Voltaire Quotes - Page 23

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It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk

It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

Christian, Brother, Art

Voltaire (1976). “Candide”, p.119, Lulu.com

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Heart, Mouths

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

Men, Action, Virtue

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4644, Delphi Classics

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

Religion, Firsts, Fool

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

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

Truth, Fruit, Ripe

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

Candide, Life Is, Pessimist

Voltaire (1956). “Candide: or, Optimism”

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

Sacrifice, Grace, Devil

Better is the enemy of good.

Fake People, People, Fake

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Fear, Punishment, Prison

I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

Wine, French Wine, My Friends

The son of God is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son; Christ, the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it.

Christian, Father, Confused

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

Christian, Jesus, Taken

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.

Love, Wedding, Heart

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.848, e-artnow

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Wise, Wisdom, Adversity

People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

Pain, Philosophical, Character

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

Philosophy, Science, Doe

"Dictionnaire Philosophique". Book by Voltaire (translated), June 1764.

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

Doe, Speak, Metaphysics

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Spiritual, Women, Learning

Dictionnaire Philosophique "Women" (1764)

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

Inspirational, Husband, Wife

"La Femme Qui a Raison,". Book by Voltaire, 1759.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Real, Book, Evil

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.103, Penguin

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Country, Uprising, Needs

"Mérope". Play by Voltaire. Act I, Scene III, 1743.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Believe, Divorce, Ancient

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.737, e-artnow

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

History, Empires, Holy

Essai sur l'Histoire Generale et sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations ch. 70 (1756)

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

Birthday, Age, Spirit

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

Men, Sea, Giving

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