Voltaire Inspirational Quotes

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• Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Motivational, Yoga

• Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "Brutus". Play by Voltaire (Act II, Scene I), 1730.

• Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Thinking Of You, Knowledge

  Voltaire (1762). “Works”, p.114

• The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Educational

• Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Running, Positive Thinking

  "The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…".

• The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Husband, Wife

  "La Femme Qui a Raison,". Book by Voltaire, 1759.

• Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christmas

• The best is the enemy of the good.

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  Inspirational, Military, Learning

  Letter to Duc de Richelieu, 18 June 1744. Although this saying is now associated with Voltaire, he is obviously quoting an Italian proverb here. The French form, which he used later, is Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

• No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Education, Clever

• It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

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  Inspirational, Religious, Freedom

  "The Age of Louis XIV". Book by Voltaire, 1751.

• Paradise is where I am

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  Inspirational, Life, Paradise

  Voltaire (1963). “Candide”

• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

• I hate women because they always know where things are.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Funny, Cute

• Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Money, Thinking

• All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

• It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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  Inspirational, Men, Risk

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

• A witty saying proves nothing.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Witty, Humorous

• Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Change, Determination

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1615, e-artnow

• Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Accord, Agree

• 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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  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4561, Delphi Classics

• Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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  Inspirational, Encouragement, Motivation

• 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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  Inspirational, Time, Philosophical

• A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Educational, Party

• There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

• Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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  Inspirational, Tragedy, Happened

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