62 Quotes About Voltaire

  • Author Roberto R Aramayo
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    Hoy nos quejamos de tener un exceso de libros; pero de esto no deben quejarse los lectores, porque nadie les obliga a leer. A pesar de la cantidad enorme de libros que se publica, es escasísimo el número de lectores que leen; y si leyeran con fruto, se dirian las deplorables tonterias que llenan tantas cabezas?

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  • Author Voltaire
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    I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'That is a hard question,' said Candide.

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  • Author Voltaire
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    It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

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  • Author Victor Hugo
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    Joie est mon caractere,C'est la faute a Voltaire;Misere est mon trousseauC'est la faute a Rousseau.[Joy is my character,'Tis the fault of Voltaire;Misery is my trousseau'Tis the fault of Rousseau.]- Gavroche

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  • Author Voltaire
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    The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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  • Author Voltaire
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    It is man´s faith to live either on agonies of fear and turmoil or in the prostration of boredom.

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