Tag: Voltaire
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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
Voltaire
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Society therefore is as ancient as the world.
Voltaire
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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
Voltaire
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Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
Voltaire
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Voltaire
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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Voltaire
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Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
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Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.
Voltaire
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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Voltaire