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For every thinking and reflecting man the existence of evil is a riddle he cannot escape.


François Petit

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VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
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VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) A witty saying proves nothing.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor an...
FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important obj...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The superfluous is very necessary.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, ...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of p...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what ...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals co...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) It is not known precisely where angels dwell -- whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) A long dispute means that both parties are wrong
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Men argue, nature acts.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
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