By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Having lived with kings, I have become a king in my own home.
We never live but we are always in the expectation of living.
You're a bitter man, said Candide.That's because I've lived, said Martin.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
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 st...
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.
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.
Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
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