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VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE)
French historian, dramatist, writer and poet
(1694 - 1778)
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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind. It is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
      - [Self-love]

Slavery is as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
      - [Servitude]

Society is as ancient as the world.
      - [Society]

Such is the destiny of great men that their superior genius always exposes them to be the butt of the envenomed darts of calumny and envy.
      - [Greatness]

Suspicion invites treachery.
      - [Suspicion]

Systems exercise the mind; but faith enlightens and guides it.
      - [Faith]

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
      - of Milton's genius [Sacrifice]

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
      - [Government]

The character of the common people changes in a single day.
      - [People]

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
      - [Philosophy]

The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
      - [Health]

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
      - [Pride]

The modesty of certain ambitious persons consists in becoming great without making too much noise; it may be said that they advance in the world on tiptoe.
      - [Ambition]

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that everything must soon be reduced to extracts.
      - [Quotations]

The multitude are ruled by prejudices.
      - [Prejudice]

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way. Bile makes man passionate and sick; but without bile man could not live.
      - [Passion]

The path of genius is not less obstructed with disappointment than that of ambition.
      - [Genius]

The post is the grand connecting link of all transactions, of all negotiations. Those who are absent, by its means become present; it is the consolation of life.
      - [Letters]

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
      - [Punishment]

The richest endowments of the mind are temperance, prudence, and fortitude. Prudence is a universal virtue, which enters into the composition of all the rest; and where she is not, fortitude loses its name and nature.
      - [Prudence]

The secret of making one's self tiresome is not to know when to stop.
      - [Bores]

The sentiment of justice is so natural, so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to me independent of all law, all party, all religion.
      - [Justice]

The sword is ever suspended.
      - [Retribution]

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream
  That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
    [Fr., Le monde m'embarrasse, et je ne puis pas songer
      Que cette horloge existe et n'a pas d'Horloger.]
      - [Creation]

There are moral as well as physical assassinations.
      - [Assassination]


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