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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work. (Voltaire)
The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. View quote
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Minds differ still more than faces. View quote
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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure. View quote
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Once the people begin to reason, all is lost. View quote
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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself. View quote
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An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct. View quote
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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it. View quote
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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly. View quote
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. View quote
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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws. (Voltaire)
In this country England it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca. View quote
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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. View quote
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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it. View quote
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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. View quote
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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts. View quote
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. View quote
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I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. View quote
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Change everything except your loves. View quote
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There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind. View quote
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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom. (Voltaire)
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting. View quote
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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 assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. View quote
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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 said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea. View quote
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. View quote
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