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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Creation Creativity

Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Crime Punishment

Doubt is not a pleasant state but certainty is a ridiculous one.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Doubts Uncertainties

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire England U K

The superfluous is very necessary.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Enjoyment Pleasure

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Failures Mistakes

Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Faith Unity

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Fame Celebrities

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Fools Foolishness

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Getting Going

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Government Rule

History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire History Historians

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Optimism Pessimism

Fear could never make a virtue.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Ways Overcome Fear

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Proof Certainty

Better is the enemy of the good.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Realistic Expectations

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Role Models

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Thinking Thought

Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ideas, however obscure, of the universe as a whole?

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Leibniz Metaphysics Monads

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

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Truth Living Dead

To hold a pen is to be at war.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Communication Pen Hold

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Nature Love Is Imagination

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Heart Ear Avenue

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Man Questions Judge

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Enjoy Think Privilege

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Name Burden Become

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Art Medical Medicine

Nature has always had more force than education.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Education Force Always

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Life Fear Enjoy Life

Common sense is not so common.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Common Sense Sense Common

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Fight Greatest Wild

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Daughter Mother Wise

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Power Lost Reason

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Money Question Same

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Society Laws Secret

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Humanity Live Long

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Life Happy Be Happy

Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Perfection Slow Hand

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Men Worth Sentiment

The best is the enemy of the good.

~ Voltaire

Voltaire Good Enemy
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