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Voltaire quotes about beauty

French Writer November 21, 1694 – May 30, 1778

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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. Voltaire
I've had some experience of this love, this love that rules our hearts, which is the soul of our souls; all it got me was a kiss and twenty kicks in the ass. How could so beautiful a cause have produced in you such an abominable effect? Voltaire
Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you? Voltaire
I know this love, that sovereign of hearts, that soul of our souls; yet it never cost me more than a kiss and twenty kicks on the backside. How could this beautiful cause produce in you an effect so abominable. Voltaire
Voltaire quote: "A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble."
A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble. Voltaire
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. Voltaire
Voltaire quote: "It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work...."
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. Voltaire
Voltaire quote: "To a toad, what is beauty? A female with pop eyes, a wide..."
To a toad, what is beauty? A female with pop eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and a spotted back, Voltaire
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 style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. Voltaire
But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure. Voltaire

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