“Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
—Voltaire, philosopher (21 Nov 1694-1778).
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Voltaire: Doubt versus certainty
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
– Voltaire.
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Voltaire: Witty saying
“A witty saying proves nothing.”
– Voltaire.
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Voltaire: Appreciation
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
—Voltaire.
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Voltaire: Pregnant with the future
“It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.”
—Voltaire.
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Voltaire: Guilty
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.”
—Voltaire, philosopher (21 Nov 1694-1778).
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Voltaire: Appreciation
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
—Voltaire.
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Voltaire: Only motivation
“Many stupid things are uttered by people whose only motivation is to say something original.”
—Voltaire.
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Voltaire: Optimism
“Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.”
—Voltaire.
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Voltaire: Gift of life
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
—Voltaire.
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Voltaire: Absurdities and atrocities
”Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
—Voltaire.
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Voltaire: Love
Voltaire fought intolerance and fanaticism, and was a prominent and very prolific philosopher of the Enlightenment. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
— Voltaire,French writer and philosopher.
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Voltaire: Crime and fear
“Fear follows crime and is its punishment. ”
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Voltaire: Free speech
Engraving of Voltaire published as the frontispiece to an 1843 edition of his Dictionnaire philosophique (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.”
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Voltaire: Tiresome
Voltaire fought intolerance and fanaticism, and was a prominent and very prolific philosopher of the Enlightenment. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything. ”
—Voltaire
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Voltaire: Who rules?
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
Voltaire, 1694-1778. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
-Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)
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Voltaire: Questions
Voltaire fought intolerance and fanaticism, and was a prominent and very prolific philosopher of the Enlightenment. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
—Voltaire.
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Voltaire: Truths
“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. ”
—Voltaire.
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Voltaire: Animals
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. -Voltaire, philosopher and writer (1694-1778)
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