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#1

“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse

tags: humor, irish, song, war

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#2

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

9010 likes

#3

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

4627 likes

#4

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

2776 likes

#5

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism

3174 likes

#6

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
― Voltaire, Candide

1309 likes

#7

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational, misattributed-to-jim-collins, work-ethic

380 likes

#8

“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.”
― Voltaire

tags: ignorance, knowledge, virginity, virtue

197 likes

#9

“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
― Voltaire

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#10

“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”
― Voltaire

tags: dependence, inequality

122 likes

#11

“The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.”
― Voltaire

tags: philosophy

119 likes

#12

“Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.”
― Voltaire

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#13

“If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.”
― Voltaire

tags: life

99 likes

#14

“There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.”
― Voltaire

85 likes

#15

“The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
― Voltaire

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#16

“It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.”
― Voltaire

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#17

“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”
― Voltaire, Candide

tags: candide, freedom

76 likes

#18

“Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.”
― Voltaire

82 likes

#19

“Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

tags: tolerance

81 likes

#20

“It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.”
― Voltaire, Candide

tags: candide, love, pangloss, voltaire

98 likes

#21

“Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.”
― Voltaire

65 likes

#22

“I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. ”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

84 likes

#23

“Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.”
― Voltaire

66 likes

#24

“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”
― Voltaire

108 likes

#25

“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”
― Voltaire

95 likes

#26

“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

55 likes

#27

“Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles.”
― Voltaire, Candide

54 likes

#28

“If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.”
― Voltaire

tags: law, legislation

35 likes

#29

“The infinitely small have a pride infinitely great.”
― Voltaire

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#30

“The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.”
― Voltaire

tags: burden-of-proof, existance, proof

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