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Voltaire Quotes

«The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: rapid, rapids, rivers
«History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | About: History | Keywords: crimes, misfortunes, portrayal, portrayals
«Man is a free agent; were it otherwise, the priests could not damn him»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: free agent, Free agents
«Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: at bay, bay, bayed, baying, bays, Bay of, boredom, evils, The Bay, vice
«Someone has said that the first soothsayer, the first prophet, was the first rascal who encountered a fool»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: encountered, prophet, rascal, soothsayer, soothsayers, The Rascals
«Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Providence | Keywords: compensation, providence
«All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: excepting, governed, savage
«Superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: rogue, slave, superstitious, tyrant
«If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: pleasant, pleasanter, pleasantest
«There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: boast, scarce, whereon
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