Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
VOLTAIREThe longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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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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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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