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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. -- Voltaire | Adventure Send to friend | View Books by Voltaire at Amazon.com | Books about Adventure at Amazon.com Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. -- Voltaire | Age and Aging Send to friend | View Books by Voltaire at Amazon.com | Books about Age and Aging at Amazon.com Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. -- Voltaire | Ancestry Send to friend | View Books by Voltaire at Amazon.com | Books about Ancestry at Amazon.com It is not known precisely where angels dwell -- whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. -- Voltaire | Angels Send to friend | View Books by Voltaire at Amazon.com | Books about Angels at Amazon.com Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. -- Voltaire | Animals Send to friend | View Books by Voltaire at Amazon.com | Books about Animals at Amazon.com By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. -- Voltaire | Appreciation Send to friend | View Books by Voltaire at Amazon.com | Books about Appreciation at Amazon.com A long dispute means that both parties are wrong -- Voltaire | Argument Send to friend | View Books by Voltaire at Amazon.com | Books about Argument at Amazon.com Men argue, nature acts. -- Voltaire | Argument Send to friend | View Books by Voltaire at Amazon.com | Books about Argument at Amazon.com Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels. -- Voltaire | Argument Send to friend | View Books by Voltaire at Amazon.com | Books about Argument at Amazon.com In this country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others. -- Voltaire | Army and Navy Send to friend | View Books by Voltaire at Amazon.com | Books about Army and Navy at Amazon.com All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. -- Voltaire | Books - Reading Send to friend | View Books by Voltaire at Amazon.com | Books about Books - Reading at Amazon.com It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. -- Voltaire | Books - Reading Send to friend | View Books by Voltaire at Amazon.com | Books about Books - Reading at Amazon.com All kinds are good except the kind that bores you. -- Voltaire | Bores and Boredom Send to friend | View Books by Voltaire at Amazon.com | Books about Bores and Boredom at Amazon.com Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one. -- Voltaire | Certainty Send to friend | View Books by Voltaire at Amazon.com | Books about Certainty at Amazon.com The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it. -- Voltaire | Character Send to friend | View Books by Voltaire at Amazon.com | Books about Character at Amazon.com Quote: 1-15 of 119 Pages: 1 of 8 next  View all quotes