Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
VOLTAIREFools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
More Voltaire Quotes
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
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