Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Quote by Voltaire

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To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Only your friends steal your books.

Only your friends steal your books.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden...

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden...

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Tears are the silent language of grief

Tears are the silent language of grief

All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it...

All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it...

Use do not abuse, neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Use do not abuse, neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity...

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity...

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man...

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man...

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors

History, a distillation of rumour.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.