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Voltaire Quotes - Page 8

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Funny, Sarcastic, Mind

'The Leningrad Notebooks' (c.1735-c.1750) in T. Besterman (ed.) 'Notebooks' (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

Age, Opinion, Popular Opinion

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

Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

Prayer, Persistence, Mind

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Soul, Feelings, Poetry Is

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.4095, e-artnow

Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

Character, Thinking, Ideas

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.67, Penguin

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

Food, Ice Cream, Cooking

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Death, Loyal, Patriot

He who seeks truth should be of no country.

Country, Truth, Should

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Faith, Spiritual, Cancer

'Questions sur l'Encyclopèdie'

He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

Shining, Wit

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Positive Thinking, Goal, Needs

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

Country, War, Greatness

Voltaire (1949). “The portable Voltaire”

History is the study of the world's crime

World, Study, Crime

Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

Thinking, World

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4516, Delphi Classics

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

Dark, Simple, Two

I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

Philosophy, Cutting, Religion

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.128, Penguin

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

Helping Others, Men, Race

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Freedom, Character, Independence

Voltaire, Tobias George Smollett, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1901). “Voltaire: Index to His Works, Genius and Character”

Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

Christian, Men, Animal

It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

Triumph, Reason, Folks

Voltaire (2015). “Socrates”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing

All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

Inspirational, Life, Nature

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

God, Military, Sides

Voltaire's letter to M. le Riche, February 6, 1770.

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

Praying, Praying To God, Oneself

Voltaire's Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750),

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

Making Love, Age, Youth

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

Marriage, Wedding, Life Is

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.4512, e-artnow

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