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Best Quotes by Voltaire
- The best way to be boring is to include everything.
- Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
- God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
- The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
- It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for…
- Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
- If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
- All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being…
- I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.
- We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.
- The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
More Best Quotes
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle