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• Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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  Courage, Truth, May

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• Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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  Believe, Independent, Taste

  "Candide, Or, Optimism". Book by Voltaire, 1759.

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

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christmas

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• The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

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  Wise, Positive Atheism, Things Happen

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• Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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  Christian, Atheist, Men

  "L'examen important de Milord Bolingbroke écrit sur la fin de 1736". Book by Voltaire. Conclusion, 1736.

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• One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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  Simple, Enlightenment, Ends

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• The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.

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  Men, Order, Goal

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.166, Voltaire

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• Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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  Religious, Evil, Parent

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4371, Delphi Classics

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• There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

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  Animal, Two, People

  Voltaire's letter, 1739.

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• It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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  Friendship, Second Chance, Law

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• I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

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  Heart, Hug, Weakness

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• It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

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  Motivational, Giving, Answers

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• So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

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  Country, Men, Greatness

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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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  Journey, Hiking, Thought Provoking

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.109, Penguin

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• Love truth, but pardon error.

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  Love, Life, Dream

  "Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme". Book by Voltaire, 1738.

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• Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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  Bird, Flying, High Places

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• To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

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  Dream, Goal, Wish

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• The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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  Philosophy, Men, Desire

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.118

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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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  Funny, Sarcastic, Mind

  'The Leningrad Notebooks' (c.1735-c.1750) in T. Besterman (ed.) 'Notebooks' (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455

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• Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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  Tolerance, Mankind, Ill

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

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• It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

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  Garden

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• Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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  Wise, Wisdom, Learning

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• To hold a pen is to be at war.

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  Peace, War, Writing

  Letter to Jeanne-Grâce Bosc du Bouchet, comtesse d'Argental, October 04, 1748.

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• The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

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  Dark, Simple, Two

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• He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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  Country, Truth, Should

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