Voltaire - Love Quotes

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All the passions die with the years; self-love alone never dies.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing [superstition], and love those who love you.

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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

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One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death.

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Whatever you do, stamp out abuses, and love those who love you.

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Pleasure has its time; so, too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age, attend to thy salvation.

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O love! only a few rays of thy sacred fire radiate in this exhausted world!

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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

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Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the body.

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Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which tempests emerge when pricked.

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He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

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All joys do not cause laughter; great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh.

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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature, and embroidered by imagination.

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He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

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