Author of quotes: Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet). Page 2



Unfathomable creatures, how can you combine so much of baseness and grandeur, so many virtues and vices?
Quote Explanation: About people.
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Prejudice is an opinion, not based on reason.
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Who limits his desires, he is always sufficiently rich.
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The farther the mind goes forward, the stronger grinds his teeth fanaticism.
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The most superstitious era, were always epochs of the most horrific crimes.
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Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, for disease about which they know even less for people they don't know at all.
(Doctors are those who prescribe medicines of which know little to cure diseases of which they know less in humans of which they know nothing.)
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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Often go far to look for what you have at home.
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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People never suffer pangs of conscience from acts that have become their custom.
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Etiquette is the reason for those who do not.
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Who does not love liberty and truth, may be a powerful man, but will never be a great man.
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What became ridiculous, can be dangerous.
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It would be reasonable instead of angry at the world, to find the courage to act.
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The name of the person svirchevska great things, inspires more respect than all the adjectives.
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The man who leaves money to charity in his will, only gives what no longer belongs to him.
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