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Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

Wisdom, Believe, Sacrifice

"Questions sur les Miracles". Publication by Voltaire, 1765.

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

Love, Cute, Beautiful

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

Friendship, Second Chance, Law

If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

Silly, Said, Ifs

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

Revenge, Book, Able

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Keeping Secrets, Our Words, Use

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Honesty, Fear, Integrity

Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

Real, Men, Poverty

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.79, Penguin

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Inspirational, Change, Determination

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.1615, e-artnow

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Truth, Fruit, Should

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

Prejudice, Crowds, Vulgar

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

Twenties, Pockets, Littles

Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

Bird, Flying, High Places

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

Wise, Thinking, Heaven

"Le Droit du Seigneur", IV. 1 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 283-285), 1922.

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

Wise, Positive Atheism, Things Happen

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

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.4431, e-artnow

The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.

Men, Order, Goal

Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.166, Voltaire

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

Children, Monsters, Fanaticism

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Funny, Witty, Philosophy

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

Religious, Evil, Parent

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4371, Delphi Classics

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

Simple, Enlightenment, Ends

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

God, Spiritual, Circles

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.147, Penguin

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

Funny Friendship, Real, Self

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

Animal, Two, People

Voltaire's letter, 1739.

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

Language, Difficult, Difficult Things

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