Voltaire Quotes
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
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It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
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Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Labor rids us of three great evils - irksomeness, vice, and poverty.
[Labor]
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Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
[Life]
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Life resembles the banquet of Damocles; the sword is ever suspended.
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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
[Life]
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Love truth, and pardon error.
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Luck is a word devoid of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
[Luck]
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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.
[Reason]
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