Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
VOLTAIRELiberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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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.
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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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Dare to think for yourself.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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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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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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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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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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