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81 " Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all? "
― Voltaire
82 " All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. "
83 " It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. "
― Voltaire , Zadig et autres contes
84 " Fear follows crime and is its punishment. "
85 " I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health. "
86 " The best is the enemy of good. "
― Voltaire , Philosophical Dictionary
87 " Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. "
88 " If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? "
― Voltaire , Candide
89 " One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion "
90 " What's optimism? said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell. "
91 " Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. "
92 " We are rarely proud when we are alone. "
93 " Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invincible; that knowledge which is forbidden me is assuredly useless to me; and that the great Being will not punish me for having sought a knowledge of him and failed to obtain it. "
― Voltaire , Treatise on Tolerance and Other Writings
94 " In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety than they are in cities under the blight of a besieging army. Private sorrows are more bitter than public suffering. "
95 " Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of which is so revolting to our delicacy. Peoples separated from the Roman religion have imitated but imperfectly so generous a charity. "
96 " If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones. "
97 " It is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls. "
98 " No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. "
99 " I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. "
100 " It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose. "