Voltaire

Voltaire

"An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year," says Zoroaster."
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"An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year," says Zoroaster."
Voltaire
"Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time."
Voltaire
"What's optimism? said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell."
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"One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion"
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"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
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"I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health."
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"Fear follows crime and is its punishment."
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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciproc"
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?"
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"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."
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"It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong"
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"Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal."
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"I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance of my senses. That there are immaterial and intelligent substances I do not at all doubt; but that it is impossible for God to communicate the faculty of thinking to matter, I doubt very much. I revere the Eternal Power, to which it would ill become me to prescribe bounds. I affirm nothing, and am contented to believe that many things are possible than are usually thought so"."
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"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
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"Men argue. Nature acts."
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"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."
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"Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it."
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"The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week."
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"Injustice in the end produces independence."
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