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Said Quotes by Voltaire
- It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
- 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…
- 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…
- And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and…
- Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
- You're a bitter man," said Candide. That's because I've lived," said Martin.
- 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…
- 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…
- What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
- The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not said
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