Voltaire Quotes

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• There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than…
• History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.
• History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
• The best way to be boring is to include everything.
• The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
• All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of…
• A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.
• Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton…
• Almost all life depends on probabilities.
• What can we say with certainty?
• Let us confess it: evil strides the world.
• Will is wish, and liberty is power.
• Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.
• Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.
• 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…
• Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois
• We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one…
• I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
• God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
• Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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