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Best One Quotes by Voltaire
- Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.
- Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
- 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…
- One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is…
- One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion
- We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one
- He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to…
- For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?
- I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of…
- To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.
- I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.
- All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
- He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
- Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
- Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
- Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch…
- The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
- In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
- I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
- Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most…
- A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age.
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
- It is not enough to conquer, one must know how to seduce.
- It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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