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Adventure
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Age
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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Ancestry, Ancestors
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Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Angels
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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.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Animals
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Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Appreciation
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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Argument & Debate
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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong
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Men argue, nature acts.
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Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.
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Assumptions
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Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Authors & Writing
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You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Boredom
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All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Bravery
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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Certainty
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Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Character
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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Common Sense
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Common sense is not so common.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Conformity & Nonconformity
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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.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Conversation
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A witty saying proves nothing.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Cowardice/Weakness
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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Creation
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Crying
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Death
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Deception/Lying
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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Divorce
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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Doctors
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Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
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Books by and about Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)