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Voltaire Quotes - Page 9

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

People, History, Littles

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

Men, Religion, Different

Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.257

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

Tolerance, Mankind, Ill

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

War, Slavery, Human Nature

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4456, Delphi Classics

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

Atheist, Evil, Atheism

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Peace, War, Writing

Letter to Jeanne-Grâce Bosc du Bouchet, comtesse d'Argental, October 04, 1748.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

Hate, Men, Objectivity

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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

Believe, Proof, Interest

Voltaire, Tobias George Smollett, Thomas Francklin (1763). “The Works of M. de Voltaire: Remarks on Mr. Pascal's Thoughts. Elements of Newton's philosophy”, p.10

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

Inspirational, Tragedy, Happened

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Heart, Paradise, Hell

The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

Goal, Pleasure, Pursuit

It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

Mother, Men, Maturity

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.108, Penguin

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

Law, Uniforms, Clear

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Wish, Knows

"Zaire (The Tragedy of Zara)". Play by Voltaire (Act I, Scene 1), August 13, 1732.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Inspiring, Today, Illusion

"Voltaire: Poeme sur le desastre de Lisbonne". Book by Voltaire (translated), 1756.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Inspirational, Men, Risk

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

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

Love, Self, Anorexia

Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.73

What is not in nature can never be true.

Nature, Truth, Being True

Voltaire (2007). “The Complete Romances of Voltaire”, p.384, Wildside Press LLC

Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

Spiritual, Moving, Men

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

Order, Talking, Gossip

Voltaire (1959). “Candide”

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

God, Religious, Atheist

A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

Evil, Littles, Obtaining

True power and true politeness are above vanity.

Vanity, True Power, Politeness

Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.3158, Delphi Classics

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Political, Politics, Seduction

Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

Dog, Monkeys, Candide

Voltaire (2006). “Candide: Or Optimism”, p.69, Yale University Press

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