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Man Quotes by Voltaire
- Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
- Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
- Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
- It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
- Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
- The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
- 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…
- In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
- 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…
- Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct…
- Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that…
- When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
- The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that…
- You're a bitter man," said Candide. That's because I've lived," said Martin.
- It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure…
- It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
- History never repeats itself. Man always does.
- The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
- Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
- A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.
- Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
- So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of…
- What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll…
- The more a man knows, the less he talks.
- He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- 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
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle