“It is only through timidity that states are lost.”
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“To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.”
“All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.”
“Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)
“All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.”
Source: A philosophical dictionary, from the Fr. [by J.G. Gurton].
“We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French
“A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.”
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Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
“The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.”