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Voltaire Quotes

«Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: avaricious, gained
«I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.»
«No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.»
«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»
«The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.»
«We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: expectation, living
«I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Act, Carpe Diem | Keywords: lived, resigning, resigns, spiders
«Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively»
«As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities»
«To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: enjoy, lightly, touch

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