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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Category: Age Author: Voltaire
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It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Category: Angels Author: Voltaire
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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.
Category: Animals and Pets Author: Voltaire
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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Category: Attitude Author: Voltaire
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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.
Category: Attitude Author: Voltaire
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Voltaire
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Category: Censorship Author: Voltaire
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Category: Censorship Author: Voltaire
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Category: Censorship Author: Voltaire
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Voltaire
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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.
Category: Conformity Author: Voltaire
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
Category: Crying Author: Voltaire Source: A Philosophical Dictionary
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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Voltaire
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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Category: Food Author: Voltaire
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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
Category: God Author: Voltaire
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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon.
Category: History Author: Voltaire
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Historians are gossips who tease the dead.
Category: History Author: Voltaire Source: Scribbling Books
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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
Category: History Author: Voltaire
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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.
Category: History Author: Voltaire Source: Philosophical Dictionary
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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.
Category: History Author: Voltaire
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