Voltaire on evil
Voltaire90 quotes“Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.”
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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.
VoltaireVoltaire To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
VoltaireVoltaire It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
VoltaireVoltaire Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
VoltaireVoltaire The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
VoltaireVoltaire Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
VoltaireVoltaire There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
VoltaireVoltaire When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
VoltaireVoltaire Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
VoltaireVoltaire I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
VoltaireVoltaire Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
VoltaireVoltaire Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
VoltaireVoltaire Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
VoltaireVoltaire If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
VoltaireVoltaire Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
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