He is a hard man who is only just and a sad one who is only wise.
Quote by Voltaire
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He is a hard man who is only just and a sad one who is only wise.
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Voltaire Quotes
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
- A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
- It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.
- Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
- If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
- It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
- Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
- Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
- Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
- All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Best Quotes
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
- All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
- When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.
- I want to light the lights of patriotism.
- Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
- Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
- I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
- Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
- Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.