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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one
on which depends the rest of our days.
[Fr., Le premier pas, mon fils, que l'on fait dans le monde,
Est celui dont depend le reste de nos jours.]
Topic: Beginnings
Source: L'Indiscret (I, i)
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How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
Topic: Hypocrisy
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary--Philosopher (sec. I)
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
[Fr., L'injustice a la fin produit l'independance.]
Topic: Independence
Source: Tancrede (III, 2)
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It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap.
[Fr., C'est demain, me belle amie, que je fais le saut
perilleux.]
Topic: Last Words
Source: quoting the words of King Henry when he was about to enter the Catholic Church
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Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
[Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est enchainee.]
Topic: Love of Country
Source: Le Fanatisme (I, 2)
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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having
studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human
body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will
benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal
attention to the rich and the poor.
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
Topic: Medicine
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary--Physicians
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If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his
merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the
Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for
the contents of the book.
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
Topic: Publishing
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary--Books (sec. 1)
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I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it
is: "My God, make our enemies very ridiculous!" God has granted
it to me.
Topic: Ridicule
Source: Letter to M. Damilaville, May 16, 1767
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The first king was a successful soldier;
He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors.
[Fr., Le premier qui fut roi, fut un soldat heureux;
Qui sert bien son pays, n'a pas besoin d'aleux.]
Topic: Royalty
Source: Merope (I, 3)
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies
about them when they die.
[Fr., La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et
l'eloge ment apres leur mort.]
Topic: Satire
Source: Lettre a Bordes
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Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
Topic: Sense
Source: Philosophical Dictionary--Self Love
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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
[Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.]
Topic: Style
Source: L'Enfant Prodigue--Preface
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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties
are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but
the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon,
or a didactic work.
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
Topic: Style
Source: Philosophical Dictionary--Style
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Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the
Turks are even sicker.
Topic: Turkey
Source: to Catherine II, see the "Rundschau", Apr., 1878
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We cannot wish for that we know not.
[Fr., On ne peut desirer ce qu'on ne connait pas.]
Topic: Wishes
Source: Zaire (I, 1)
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Wishers and woulders be small householders.
Topic: Wishes
Source: Zaire (I, 1)
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