| All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon. |
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| Historians are gossips who tease the dead. |
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| History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times. |
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| History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. |
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| History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others. |
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| What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. |
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| Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd. |
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- Voltaire |
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| Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. |
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| It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. |
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- Voltaire |
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| Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. |
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- Voltaire |
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| There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable. |
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| The multitude of books is making us ignorant. |
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| I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. |
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- Voltaire |
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| Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. |
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| People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that [such people] can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel. |
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- Voltaire |
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| It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. |
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- Voltaire |
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| It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. |
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| Love truth, and pardon error. |
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| "I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want." |
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- Voltaire |
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| In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. |
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- Voltaire |
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