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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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• He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

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  Spirit, Spirituality, Misery

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• It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Would Be

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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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• Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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  Food, Ice Cream, Cooking

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• He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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  Country, Truth, Should

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• Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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  Happiness, Men, Advice

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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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• Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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  Character, Thinking, Ideas

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.67, Penguin

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• The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

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  Goal, Pleasure, Pursuit

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• The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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  Boredom, Secret, Brevity

  SAMUEL JOHNSON

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• It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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  Age, Opinion, Popular Opinion

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.135

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• A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

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  Atheism, Clergymen, Expenses

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• Almost all life depends on probabilities.

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  Gambling, Probability, Depends

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• A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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  Evil, Littles, Obtaining

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• Injustice in the end produces independence.

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  Independence, Injustice, Ends

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• Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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  Hero, Villain, Undone

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• Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

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  Race, Law, Conquer

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• Men argue. Nature acts.

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  Nature, Men, Arguing

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.462, Voltaire

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• Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

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  Law, Uniforms, Clear

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• Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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  Creativity, Originality, Plagiarism

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• He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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  Death, Loyal, Patriot

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• Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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  Country, War, Greatness

  Voltaire (1949). “The portable Voltaire”

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• To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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  Praying, Praying To God, Oneself

  Voltaire's Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750),

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• Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

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  Prayer, Persistence, Mind

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