Able Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Book Failure Ill Language Revenge Succeed Success World
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“He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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“He who cannot revenge himself is weak. He who will not is comtemptible.” — Mark Guggenheim Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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