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Voltaire

Voltaire

French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet)

Lived from: 1694 - 1778

Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 21 november 1694 Died: 30 may 1778

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  • To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
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  • We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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  • 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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  • When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
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  • When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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  • When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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  • Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
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  • Work is often the father of pleasure.
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  • 'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'
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  • All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
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  • Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
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  • As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
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  • By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
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  • Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
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  • Common sense is not so common.
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  • Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
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  • Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
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  • Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
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  • Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
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  • Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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