Tag: Voltaire
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Voltaire
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Voltaire
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire
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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Voltaire
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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
Voltaire
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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Voltaire
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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Voltaire
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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
Voltaire