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Great Quotes by Voltaire
- The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
- He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
- One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
- 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…
- It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
- Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
- Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
- All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to…
- It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.
- The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
- He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.
- 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…
- Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
- I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
- He who thinks himself wise, O Heavens! is a great fool.
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