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Nothing Quotes by Voltaire
- History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
- The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
- Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
- Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
- Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
- Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
- A witty saying proves nothing.
- 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…
- The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there…
- 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…
- I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the…
- The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
- You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.
- Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
- Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our…
- He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We…
- Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
- But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which…
- Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
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- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
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- Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes