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Voltaire Quotes about Character

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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

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

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

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

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

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire
Character, Men, Way

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.

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Pain, Philosophical, Character

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Voltaire
Character, Men, Reputation

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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Character, Water, Ignorant
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.1847, e-artnow

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