Voltaire on evil
Voltaire90 quotes“Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.”
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Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
VoltaireVoltaire The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
VoltaireVoltaire When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
VoltaireVoltaire The more a man knows, the less he talks.
VoltaireVoltaire God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
VoltaireVoltaire Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
VoltaireVoltaire The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
VoltaireVoltaire I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.
VoltaireVoltaire The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VoltaireVoltaire Perfect is the enemy of good.
VoltaireVoltaire It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VoltaireVoltaire Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VoltaireVoltaire Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
VoltaireVoltaire May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VoltaireVoltaire Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
VoltaireVoltaire Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
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The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.
Rand PaulRand Paul Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
LivyLivy Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?
Upton SinclairUpton Sinclair In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.
ZoroasterZoroaster In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no ‘two evils’ exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.
SaadiSaadi Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.
Zinedine ZidaneZinedine Zidane