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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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  • Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
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  • It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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  • It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.
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  • It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
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  • It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
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  • It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
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  • It is only through timidity that states are lost.
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  • Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.
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  • Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
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  • Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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  • Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
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  • Men argue, nature acts.
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  • Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
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  • My life is a battle.
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  • My prayer to God is a very short one: ''O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous!'' God has granted it.
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  • No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
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  • One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
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  • Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
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  • Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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  • Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
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