A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 02

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Voltaire. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 02

APPEARANCE

APROPOS

ARABS;

ARARAT

ARIANISM

ARISTEAS

ARISTOTLE

ARMS – ARMIES

AROT AND MAROT

ART OF POETRY

ARTS – FINE ARTS

ASMODEUS

ASPHALTUS

ASS

ASSASSIN – ASSASSINATION

ASTROLOGY

ASTRONOMY,

ATHEISM

ATHEIST

ATOMS

AVARICE

AUGURY

AUGUSTINE

AUGUSTUS (OCTAVIUS)

AVIGNON

AUSTERITIES

AUTHORS

AUTHORITY

AXIS

BABEL

BACCHUS

BACON (ROGER)

BANISHMENT

BAPTISM

BARUCH, OR BARAK, AND DEBORAH;

BATTALION

BAYLE

BDELLIUM

BEARD

BEASTS

BEAUTIFUL (THE)

BEES

BEGGAR – MENDICANT

BEKKER,

BELIEF

BETHSHEMESH

BILHAH – BASTARDS

BISHOP

BLASPHEMY

BODY

BOOKS

BOURGES

BRACHMANS – BRAHMINS

BREAD-TREE

BUFFOONERY – BURLESQUE – LOW COMEDY

BULGARIANS

BULL

BULL (PAPAL)

CÆSAR

CALENDS

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All great successes, of whatever kind, are founded upon things done or said apropos.

Arnold of Brescia, John Huss, and Jerome of Prague did not come quite apropos; the people were not then sufficiently enlightened; the invention of printing had not then laid the abuses complained of before the eyes of every one. But when men began to read – when the populace, who were solicitous to escape purgatory, but at the same time wished not to pay too dear for indulgences, began to open their eyes, the reformers of the sixteenth century came quite apropos, and succeeded.

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Aristotle's morals, like all others, are good, for there are not two systems of morality. Those of Confucius, of Zoroaster, of Pythagoras, of Aristotle, of Epictetus, of Antoninus, are absolutely the same. God has placed in every breast the knowledge of good, with some inclination for evil.

Aristotle says that to be virtuous three things are necessary – nature, reason, and habit; and nothing is more true. Without a good disposition, virtue is too difficult; reason strengthens it; and habit renders good actions as familiar as a daily exercise to which one is accustomed.

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