Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,
Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

Voltaire

Mots clés wisdom politics foolishness superstition



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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

Mots clés wisdom



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It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

Voltaire


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Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

Voltaire

Mots clés inadequacy excellence works-backwards-too



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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

Voltaire


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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Voltaire


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قد أختلف معك في الراي ولكني مستعد ان ادفع حياتي ثمنا لحقك في التعبير عن رأيك .

Voltaire

Mots clés كاتب



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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.

Voltaire


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After all, it is no more surprising to me to be born twice than it is to be born once.

Voltaire


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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Voltaire

Mots clés optimism satire best-world



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