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    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    ― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: apothegm, common-sense
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    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism
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    Voltaire
    “Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: books, reading
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    Voltaire
    “Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
    (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”
    ― Voltaire, Traité sur la tolérance, à l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas
    tags: freedom-of-thought, independence-of-thought, thinking, tolerance, voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
    ― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: conformism, disregard, ignorance, innovation, persecution, reformers, trailblazers
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    “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
    ― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire
    tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: gospel-truth
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    Voltaire
    “Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: argument, belief, monster, opinion, philosophy
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    Voltaire
    “Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.”
    ― voltaire
    tags: family, voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “History never repeats itself. Man always does.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours. ”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Minds differ still more than faces.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: books
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    Voltaire
    “Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: life
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: political-philosophy
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
    ― Machiavelli Niccolo
    tags: political-theory, sociology
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: philosophy
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli
    tags: honor, men, titles
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: deception
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: comprehension, intellect, intelligence, knowledge, philosophy, use
    511 likes



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